Mental stress as consequence and cause of vision loss: the dawn of psychosomatic ophthalmology for preventive and personalized medicine

BA Sabel, J Wang, L Cárdenas-Morales, M Faiq… - EPMA journal, 2018 - Springer
The loss of vision after damage to the retina, optic nerve, or brain has often grave
consequences in everyday life such as problems with recognizing faces, reading, or …

Evidence-based cognitive rehabilitation: updated review of the literature from 1998 through 2002

KD Cicerone, C Dahlberg, JF Malec… - Archives of physical …, 2005 - Elsevier
Cicerone KD, Dahlberg C, Malec JF, Langenbahn DM, Felicetti T, Kneipp S, Ellmo W,
Kalmar K, Giacino JT, Harley JP, Laatsch L, Morse PA, Catanese J. Evidence-based …

Interventions for visual field defects in people with stroke

A Pollock, C Hazelton, FJ Rowe… - Cochrane Database …, 2019 - cochranelibrary.com
Background Visual field defects are estimated to affect 20% to 57% of people who have had
a stroke. Visual field defects can affect functional ability in activities of daily living (commonly …

Cholinergic nervous system and glaucoma: From basic science to clinical applications

MA Faiq, G Wollstein, JS Schuman, KC Chan - Progress in retinal and eye …, 2019 - Elsevier
The cholinergic system has a crucial role to play in visual function. Although cholinergic
drugs have been a focus of attention as glaucoma medications for reducing eye pressure …

The blindsight saga

A Cowey - Experimental brain research, 2010 - Springer
Blindsight is the ability of patients with clinically blind field defects, caused by damage to the
primary visual cortex V, to detect, localise and even discriminate visual stimuli that they deny …

Perceptual relearning of complex visual motion after V1 damage in humans

KR Huxlin, T Martin, K Kelly, M Riley… - Journal of …, 2009 - jneurosci.org
Damage to the adult, primary visual cortex (V1) causes severe visual impairment that was
previously thought to be permanent, yet several visual pathways survive V1 damage …

Vision restoration after brain and retina damage: the “residual vision activation theory”

BA Sabel, P Henrich-Noack, A Fedorov, C Gall - Progress in brain research, 2011 - Elsevier
Vision loss after retinal or cerebral visual injury (CVI) was long considered to be irreversible.
However, there is considerable potential for vision restoration and recovery even in …

Alternating current stimulation for vision restoration after optic nerve damage: a randomized clinical trial

C Gall, S Schmidt, MP Schittkowski, A Antal… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Background Vision loss after optic neuropathy is considered irreversible. Here, repetitive
transorbital alternating current stimulation (rtACS) was applied in partially blind patients with …

Spared perilesional V1 activity underlies training-induced recovery of luminance detection sensitivity in cortically-blind patients

A Barbot, A Das, MD Melnick, MR Cavanaugh… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Damage to the primary visual cortex (V1) causes homonymous visual-field loss long
considered intractable. Multiple studies now show that perceptual training can restore visual …

Does visual restitution training change absolute homonymous visual field defects? A fundus controlled study

J Reinhard, A Schreiber, U Schiefer, E Kasten… - British Journal of …, 2005 - bjo.bmj.com
Aim: To examine whether visual restitution training (VRT) is able to change absolute
homonymous field defect, assessed with fundus controlled microperimetry, in patients with …