The amblyopic deficit and its relationship to geniculo-cortical processing streams

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 475-483

  Hess, Robert F ^a   Thompson, Benjamin ^a,b   Gole, Glen A ^c   Mullen, Kathy T ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBLYOPIA; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE; EYE AXIS LENGTH; EYE MOVEMENT; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; LATERAL GENICULATE NUCLEUS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRABISMUS; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

AMBLYOPIA; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FIXATION, OCULAR; GENICULATE GANGLION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; STRABISMUS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 77954440154     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.01060.2009     Document Type: Article

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