A new study from Georgia Tech shows that when patients with macular degeneration focus on using another part of their retina to compensate for their loss of central vision, their brain seems to ...

This type of sight loss, called hemianopia, affects one side of a person's vision and is caused by damage to the visual pathway in the brain. A visual field test called perimetry is the current ...

Therapy restores visual field lost to brain injury in some patients ... Patterns of light then stimulate the edges of the patient’s visual fields identified as having partial vision loss.

Hemianopsia is a loss of vision in half of the visual field of one or both eyes. Common causes are stroke, brain tumor, and trauma to the brain.

His main field of research, under the supervision of Denis Schluppeck, DPhil, and Prof. Paul McGraw, involves investigating homonymous visual field loss in stroke survivors using various brain ...

Hemianopia, or hemianopsia, is a condition when a person loses half of their vision field. Learn here about hemianopia causes, symptoms, treatments, and more.

An occipital stroke affects the back of the brain and can cause an array of visual impairments. These may include the loss of a quarter or half of a person’s visual field or complete blindness ...

Second, if additional studies confirm SCI as a risk factor for visual field loss, treatment to prevent SCI might slow disease progression in NTG patients. Third, brain scans of NTG patients to ...

Visual field analysis showed a right homonymous visual field defect. Fundus fluorescein angiogram confirmed the absence of CNVM. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain and orbits was performed.

BERLIN, GERMANY--(Marketwired - Jun 29, 2015) - The non-invasive EBS therapy offers patients with visual field loss an alternative treatment option. The targeted use of gentle alternating current ...

Field said the researchers have yet to understand the structure of these noise correlations across the brain. "If the brain were to assume that the noise is independent across neurons, instead of ...

Visual field tests help your doctor figure out whether you have blind spots, where they are, and what their shape is. This can tell you a lot about how an eye disease or brain disorder affects you.