Photophobia in patients with traumatic brain injury: Uses of light-filtering lenses to enhance contrast sensitivity and reading rate

NeuroRehabilitation

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 193-201

  Jackowski, Mary M ^a,b   Sturr, Joseph F ^a,b   Taub, Harvey A ^c,d   Turk, Margaret A ^e  

^a SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Central New York Research Corporation   (United States)

^d SYRACUSE VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Contrast sensitivity; Light filtering lenses; Reading rate; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHOTOPHOBIA; READING; SPECTACLES; VISION;

EID: 0029928821     PISSN: 10538135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/1053-8135(96)00165-5     Document Type: Article

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