Neurovisual rehabilitation: Recent developments and future directions

Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 691-706

  Kerkhoff, Georg ^a  

^a KLINIKUM BOGENHAUSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; BRAIN INJURY; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; RETINA FOVEA; REVIEW; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SMOOTH PURSUIT EYE MOVEMENT; STEREOSCOPIC VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL DISORDER; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT;

EID: 0034064402     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.68.6.691     Document Type: Review

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