Progress in rehabilitation of hemianopic visual field defects

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 27, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2009, Pages 187-190

  Romano, Jose G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Hemianopsia; Visual fields; Visual rehabilitation

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; CONVALESCENCE; HEMIANOPIA; HUMAN; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTITUTION THERAPY; STROKE; SURVIVOR; VISION; VISION TEST; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; HEMIANOPSIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 64149099809     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000200458     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (36)

1. Gilhotra JS, Mitchell P, Healey PR, Cumming RG, Currie J: Homonymous visual field defects and stroke in an older population. Stroke 2002; 33: 2417-2420.
2. Barker WH, Mullooly JP: Stroke in a defined elderly population, 1967-1985. A less lethal and disabling but no less common disease. Stroke 1997;282:284-290.
3. Gianutsos R, Ramsey G, Perlin RR: Rehabilitative optometric services for survivors of acquired brain injury. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 1988;69:573-578.
4. Rosamond W, Flega 1K, Friday G, et al, for the American Heart Association Statistics Committee and Stroke Statistics Subcommittee. Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics - 2007 Update. Circulation 2007; 115:e69-e171.
5. Langlois JA, Rutland-Brown W, Thomas KE: Traumatic brain injury in the United States: emergency department visits, hospitalizations, and deaths. Atlanta, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, 2004.
6. Thurman D, Alverson C, Dunn K, Guerrero J, Sniezek J: Traumatic brain injury in the United States: a public health perspective. J Head Trauma Rehab 1999; 14:602-615.
7. Leff AP, Crewes H, Plant GT, Scott SK, Kennard C, Wise RJS: The functional anatomy of single-word reading in patients with hemianopic and pure alexias. Brain 2001; 124: 510-521.
8. Reding M, Potes E: Rehabilitation outcome following initial unilateral hemispheric stroke: life table analysis approach. Stroke 1988; 19:1354-1348.
9. Gray CS, French JM, Bates D, Cartlidge NE, Venables GS, James OF: Recovery of visual fields in acute stroke: homonymous hemianopia associated with adverse prognosis. Age Ageing 1989; 18:419-421.
10. Zhang X, Kedar S, Lynn MJ, Newman NJ, Biousse V: Homonymous hemianopias: clinical-anatomic correlations in 904 cases. Neurology 2006;66:906-910.
11. Szlyk JP, Seiple W, Stelmack J, McMahon T: Use of prisms for navigation and driving in hemianopic patients. Ophthalmic Physiol Opt 2005;25:128-135.
12. Rossi PW, Kheyfets S, Reading MJ: Fresnel prisms improve visual perception in stroke patients with homonymous hemianopia or unilateral visual neglect. Neurology 1990; 40: 1597-1599.
13. Bowers AR, Keeney K, Peli E: Community-based trial of a peripheral prism visual field expansion device for hemianopsia. Arch Ophthalmol 2008; 126:657-664.
14. Pambakian ALM, Wooding DS, Patel N, Morland AB, Kennard C, Mannan SK: Scanning the visual world: a study of patients with homonymous hemianopsia. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2000;69:751-759.
15. Bouwmeester L, Heutink J, Lucas C: The effect of visual training for patients with visual field defects due to brain damage: a systematic review. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2007;78:555-564.
16. Spitzyna GA, Wise RJS, McDonald SA, Plant GT, Kidd D, Crewes H, Leff AP: Optokinetic therapy improves text reading in patients with hemianopic alexia. A controlled trial. Neurology 2007;68:1922-1930.
17. Kasten E, Sabel BA: Visual field enlargement after computer training in brain-damaged patients with homonymous deficits: an open pilot trial. Restor Neurol Neurosci 1995;8: 113-127.
18. Kasten E, Wust S, Behrens-Baumann W, Sabel BA: Computer-based training for the treatment of partially blindness. Nat Med 1998;4:1083-1087.
19. Mueller I, Poggel DA, Kenkel S, Kasten E, Sabel BA: Vision Restoration Therapy after brain damage: subjective improvements of activities of daily life and their relationship to visual field enlargement. Vis Impair Res 2003;5:157-178.
20. Mueller I, Mast I, Sabel BA: Recovery of visual field defects: a large clinical observation study using vision restoration therapy. Restor Neurol Neurosci 2007;25:563-572.
21. Romano JG, Schulz P, Kenkel S, Todd DP: Visual field changes after a rehabilitation intervention: vision restoration therapy. J Neurol Sci 2008;273:70-74.
22. Reinhard J, Schreiber A, Schiefer U, Kasten E, Sabel BA, Kenkel S, Vonthein R, Trauzettel-Klosinski S: Does visual restitution training change absolute homonymous visual field defect? A fundus controlled study. Br J Ophthalmol 2005;89:30-35.
23. Horton JC: Disappointing results from Nova Vision's visual restoration therapy. Br J Ophthalmol 2005;89:1-2.
24. Sabel BA, Kenkel S, Kasten E: Vision restoration therapy (VRT) efficacy as assessed by comparative perimetric analysis and subjective questionnaires. Restor Neurol Neurosci 2004;22:399-420.
25. Kasten E, Bunzenthal U, Sabel BA: Visual field recovery after vision restoration therapy (VRT) is independent of eye movements: an eye tracker study. Behav Brain Res 2006; 175:18-26.
26. Chmayssani M, Minzer B, Saxena N, Arogyasami R, Lazar R, Greenstein VC, Marshall RS: Retinal microperimetry as a means to assess visual field expansion in visual restoration therapy; in Am Acad Neurol Annu Meet, Chicago, April 2008. Neurology 2008; 70(suppl 1):A206.
27. Marshall R, Kenkel S, Schults P, Romano JG: Stability of the blind spot as a measure of fixation stability in Visual Restoration Therapy; Am Acad Neurol Annu Meet, Chicago, April 2008. Neurolog y 2008; 70(suppl 1): A479.
28. Gilbert CD, Wiesel TN: Receptive field dynamics in adult primary visual cortex. Nature 1992;356:150-152.
29. Dilks DD, Serences JT, Rosenau BJ, Yantis S, McCloskey M: Human adult cortical reorganization and consequent visual distortion. J Neurosci 2007;27:9585-9594.
30. Huxlin KR, Pasternak T: Training-induced recovery of visual motion perception after extrastriate cortical damage in the adult cat. Cereb Cor tex 2004;14:81-90.
31. Marshall RS, Ferrera JJ, Barnes A, Zhang X, O'Brien KA, Chmaysanni M, Hirsch J, Lazar R: Brain activity associated with stimulation therapy of the visual borderzone in hemianopic stroke patients. Neurorehabil Neural Repair 2008;22:136-144.
32. Julkunen L, Tenovuo O, Vorobyev V, Hiltunen J, Teras M, Jaaskelainen SK, Hamalainen H: Functional brain imaging, clinical and neurophysiological outcome of visual rehabilitation in a chronic stroke patient. Rest Neurol Neurosci 20 06; 24: 123-132.
33. Eger E, Henson RN, Driver J, Dolan RJ: Mechanisms of top-down facilitation in perception of visual objects studied by fMRI. Cereb Cortex 2007; 17:2123-2133.
34. Poggel DA, Kasten E, Sabel BA: Attentional cueing improves vision restoration therapy in patients with visual field defects. Neurology 2004; 63:2069-2076.
35. Sahraie A, Trevethan CT, MacLeod MJ, Murray AD, Olson JA, Weiskrantz L: Increased sensitivity after repeated stimulation of residual spatial channels in blindsight. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2006; 103: 14971-14976.
36. Sabel BA, Jobke S, Kasten E: Activating vision with a moving stimulus facilitates vision restoration in the blind field in hemianopia; in Soc Neurosci Annu Meet, San Diego, November 2007.