Selina Powell

Assistant editor

Selina Powell is assistant editor for Optometry Today, where she focuses on covering the latest innovations and research in eye health. She also profiles what optometrists get up to outside of the consulting room through her regular Secret life of the optometrist feature.

Selina worked as a journalist for weekly and daily newspapers in New Zealand before moving to the UK in 2016.

More articles by Selina Powell

• Neuroscience
• Clear all

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  The mind’s eye is a late-bloomer

  The visual cortex takes longer to mature than previously thought, opening up new possibilities for the treatment of conditions such as amblyopia

  • OT news and features
  • Pulished 31 May 2017
  • by Selina Powell

  Research Sight impairment Neuroscience Treatment
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  Blind and sighted individuals take in surroundings with same ‘brain map’

  New research shows the layout of brain activity is similar regardless of whether someone was born with sight or without

  • OT news and features
  • Pulished 24 May 2017
  • by Selina Powell

  Research Blind Health Neuroscience
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  An everyday circus act

  Researchers have discovered the mechanism that stops people from getting disorientated each time they blink

  • OT news and features
  • Pulished 26 Jan 2017
  • by Selina Powell

  Research Health Neuroscience