Yellow glasses improve contrast sensitivity of a patient with a visual variant of Alzheimer's disease

European Neurology

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 224-225

  Sakai, Shinya ^a   Hirayama, Kazumi ^a   Iwasaki, Syoichi ^b   Fujii, Toshikatsu ^a   Hashimoto, Ryusaku ^a   Yamadori, Atsushi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COLOR THERAPY; COLOR VISION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LUMINANCE; NEUROIMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; SPECTACLES; VISION TEST; VISUAL DISORDER; VISUAL STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN CORTEX; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; SCINTISCANNING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; VISION; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE;

INOSINE PHOSPHATE;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COLOR PERCEPTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; EYEGLASSES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INOSINE MONOPHOSPHATE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VISUAL PERCEPTION; WECHSLER SCALES;

EID: 0036052602     PISSN: 00143022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000066164     Document Type: Article

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