Residual visual function after loss of both cerebral hemispheres in infancy

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 3098-3106

  Werth, Reinhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BINOCULAR VISION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HEAD MOVEMENT; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HYDRANENCEPHALY; INFANT; MALE; PERIMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; OPTOKINETIC NYSTAGMUS; PARIETAL LOBE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; VISION TEST;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDRANENCEPHALY; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NYSTAGMUS, OPTOKINETIC; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PERIMETRY; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; VISION TESTS; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 34548086033     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.06-1141     Document Type: Article

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