Hidden visual loss in optic neuropathy is revealed using gabor patch contrast perimetry

Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 284-291

  Bodis Wollner, Ivan ^b   Brannan, Julie R ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b Department of Psychiatry   (United States)

Author keywords

Contrast sensitivity; Glaucomatous optic nerve disease; Optic neuropathy; Parallel processing; Retinal ganglion cells; Visual field

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; PERIMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA GANGLION CELL; REVIEW; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ADULT; AGED; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; OCULAR HYPERTENSION; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; PERIMETRY; VISION DISORDERS; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 0030824332     PISSN: 10656766     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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