Read-Right: A "web app" that improves reading speeds in patients with hemianopia

Journal of Neurology

Volumn 259, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2611-2615

  Ong, Yean Hoon ^a   Brown, Maurice M ^a,c   Robinson, Patrick ^a,c   Plant, Gordon T ^b   Husain, Masud ^b,d   Leff, Alexander P ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alexia; Hemianopia; Internet; Rehabilitation; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FEMALE; HEMIANOPIA; HUMAN; INTERNET; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; READING SPEED; THERAPY EFFECT; WEBB APPLICATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMPUTER-ASSISTED INSTRUCTION; FEMALE; HEMIANOPSIA; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; READING; STROKE; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL FIELD TESTS;

EID: 84872100644     PISSN: 03405354     EISSN: 14321459     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00415-012-6549-8     Document Type: Article

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