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CHENNAI : Dr. Agarwal's Eye Hospital's Shri Prakash Centre of Neuro Ophthalmology was inaugurated by industrialist Nalli Kuppuswamy Chettiar on Saturday. Philantrophist Shri Prakash donated Rs. 32 lakh for the centre's construction. The new centre would provide treatment for blindness due to brain diseases, said Amar Agarwal, Joint Managing Director of the hospital. The new centre is equipped with an electro-physiological testing machine that will scan for diseases affecting vision, which originate from the nervous system. The machine will test the electrical potential generated by the retina of the eye to detect conditions such as arteriosclerosis of the retina and detachment of the retina and the movement of the eyelids during dreaming periods. "The instrument will be useful for providing us clues about the working of the visual pathway from the eye along the optic nerve to the brain," said Dr. Agarwal. He said the instrument would prove really useful in detecting how much infants can visualise.
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