“New Approaches to Visual Rehabilitation for Cortical Blindness: Outcomes and Putative Mechanisms”
“Cortical blindness is a chronic loss of vision following damage to the primary visual cortex (V1) or its postchiasmal afferents. Cortically blind subjects demonstrate spontaneous oculomotor adaptations to their deficits that can be further improved by saccadic localization training. However, saccadic training does not improve visual sensitivity in the blind field. In contrast, recent studies by a number of independent groups suggest that localized, repetitive perceptual training can improve visual sensitivity in the blind field.” This is an exciting paper for me as a neuro physiotherapist. I have been working with a child who developed cortical blindness due to epilepsy. […]
