Glaucoma: Ignorance and apathy

Does the New York Times Spread Ignorance and Apathy?

Technological advances over the past century have dramatically lowered the cost of transmitting information over large distances, allowing high quality national media such as the New York Times to enter local markets. However, consumers attracted to outside media may consume less local information and, as a result, disengage from local affairs. In the late 1990’s, the New York Times implemented...

Voter Apathy and 'Rational' Ignorance: Perspectives of the UK 2001 General Election

Public choice ana lysis of voting predicts apathy and rational ignorance. Transactions cost analysis forms predictions on the basis of systematic responses to low-cost signals that serve to reduce decision-making costs. Public choice analysis is premised only on instrumental rationality; a transactions cost analysis includes analysis of intrinsic motivation, ie. analysis of 'consumption' benefi...

Is glaucoma blindness a disease of deprivation and ignorance? A case–control study for late presentation of glaucoma in India

AIM The aim was to identify the presenting symptoms and social risk factors for late presentation of primary glaucoma in newly diagnosed cases. MATERIALS AND METHODS It was a case-control study in a tertiary eye care center in Maharashtra, India. Newly diagnosed patients with primary glaucoma were classified as cases (late presenters) where there was no perception of light in one eye or sever...

Pain and apathy

In this case report we discuss the lack of emotional reactivity and evasive motor motivation to nociceptive stimuli presented by a patient with frontotemporal degenerative disease and apathy as a predominant behavioral symptom.

Poststroke apathy.