Attentional cueing improves vision restoration therapy in patients with visual field defects

Neurology

Volumn 63, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 2069-2076

  Poggel, Dorothe A ^a,c   Kasten, Erich ^a,b   Sabel, Bernhard A ^a,c  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c NovaVision Inc   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; BLINDNESS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED PERIMETRY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PERIMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TOPOGRAPHY; TRAINING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT;

EID: 10444224812     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.WNL.0000145773.26378.E5     Document Type: Article

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