Conscious visual abilities in a patient with early bilateral occipital damage

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 772-781

  Giaschi, Deborah ^a   Jan, James E ^a   Bjorson, Bruce ^a   Young, Simon Au ^b   Tata, Matthew ^a   Lyons, Christopher J ^a   Good, William V ^c   Wong, Peter K H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b BC CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c SMITH KETTLEWELL EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIDDOCH PHENOMENON; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; COLOR VISION TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; OPTOKINETIC NYSTAGMUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; STRIATE CORTEX; VELOCITY; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VISUAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; VISUAL REFLEX; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION;

ADULT; BLINDNESS, CORTICAL; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; CONSCIOUSNESS; CORPUS STRIATUM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; OBSTETRIC LABOR COMPLICATIONS; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PREGNANCY; SACCADES; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 0142186774     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0012162203001439     Document Type: Article

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