Contrast sensitivity of patients with severe motor and intellectual disabilities and cerebral visual impairment

Journal of Child Neurology

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 731-737

  Sakai, Shinya ^a   Hirayama, Kazumi ^a   Iwasaki, Syoichi ^b   Yamadori, Atsushi ^a   Sato, Naoko ^c   Ito, Aiko ^d   Kato, Mitsuhiro ^e   Sudo, Mutsuko ^f   Tsuburaya, Kenji ^g  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU BUNKA GAKUEN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Yamagata National Hospital   (Japan)

^e YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f Department of Pediatrics Ekoh Ryouikuen Hospital and Home for Persons with Severe Mental and Physical Disabilities ^*  (Japan)

^g Yonezawa National Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTRONYSTAGMOGRAPHY; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; GRATING; HUMAN; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; OPTOKINETIC NYSTAGMUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; VISION; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; ELECTRONYSTAGMOGRAPHY; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MOVEMENT DISORDERS; PURSUIT, SMOOTH; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VISION DISORDERS;

EID: 0036823477     PISSN: 08830738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/08830738020170101201     Document Type: Article

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