Restorative and compensatory therapy approaches in cerebral blindness - A review

Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience

Volumn 15, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 255-271

  Kerkhoff, Georg ^a  

^a KLINIKUM BOGENHAUSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gaze; Hemianopia; Reading; Recovery; Space perception; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALEXIA; CEREBRAL BLINDNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HOMONYMOUS HEMIANOPIA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; REVIEW; SCHOOL CHILD; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT;

EID: 0033452945     PISSN: 09226028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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