Vision restoration therapy after brain damage: Subjective improvements of activities of daily life and their relationship to visual field enlargements

Visual Impairment Research

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 157-178

  Mueller, Iris ^a   Poggel, Dorothe ^a,b   Kenkel, Sigrid ^a   Kasten, Erich ^a   Sabel, Bernhard ^a  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

hemianopia; stroke; training; Vision; visual field deficits

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993926716     PISSN: 1388235X     EISSN: 17445167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1388235039048692     Document Type: Article

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