Functional rehabilitation of partial cortical blindness?

Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 4-5, 2008, Pages 291-303

  Stoerig, Petra ^a,b  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Institute of Experimental Psychology II   (Germany)

Author keywords

Age at lesion; Blindsight; Cortical blindness; Degeneration; Functional recovery; Perceptual learning; Post lesion plasticity; Primary visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; CAT; CEREBRAL BLINDNESS; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; LATERAL GENICULATE BODY; LEARNING; MONKEY; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STRIATE CORTEX; SURVIVAL; TRAINING; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL SYSTEM;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BLINDNESS, CORTICAL; CATS; HUMANS; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 57149091333     PISSN: 09226028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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