Reorganization of visual processing is related to eccentric viewing in patients with macular degeneration

Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 4-5, 2008, Pages 391-402

  Schumacher, Eric H ^a   Jacko, Julie A ^b   Primo, Susan A ^c   Main, Keith L ^a   Moloney, Kevin P ^b   Kinzel, Erin N ^b   Ginn, Jimmy ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Emory University   (United States)

^c EMORY EYE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Calcarine sulcus; Cortical reorganization; fMRI; Functional neuroimaging; Plasticity; Primary visual cortex; Retinal disease

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA FOVEA; RETINA MACULA DEGENERATION; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VISUAL STIMULATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOVEA CENTRALIS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE REGENERATION; OXYGEN; PERIMETRY; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 57149113906     PISSN: 09226028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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