Taking LSD has been known to stimulate 'out of this world' visual and audio experiences. But how does taking LSD affect those who are visually impaired?

The Institute for the Blind (IFB) has changed its name to Kaleidoscope, marking the Institute’s 135-year history and its new focus as a commercially viable entity.

A preliminary study using gene therapy to treat a rare form of blindness looks promising and could trigger similar efforts for other causes of vision loss.

Photographer Lisa Murphy believed the blind lacked access to our "much sexualised" world, so she decided to create a new kind of pornography designed especially for the blind.

People with depression are more likely to have self-reported vision loss, says study.

On World Sight Day these stories will make you appreciate your sense of sight.

A few years ago a company called EnChroma started marketing glasses that claim to restore normal vision to colour blind people.

The sense of touch works faster in people who have been blind from birth than in those with normal vision or those who became blind later in life, a new study finds.

Blind people use the visual part of their brain to heighten their senses of touch and hearing, new research has found.

A bionic retina implant which registers light and transmits messages to the brain could cure degenerative blindness due to retinitis pigmentosa.