Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Some motorists with hemianopia or quadrantanopia proved capable of driving safely in a controlled driving test ...

BOSTON, Nov. 12 Scientists at Schepens Eye Research Institute have found that -- when tested in a driving simulator -- patients with hemianopia (blindness in one half of the visual field in both eyes) ...

We report a 23-year-old woman with right homonymous hemianopia and incomplete left inferior quadrantanopia and paracentral scotoma secondary to head trauma from a gunshot wound. The patient underwent ...

Scientists have found that -- when tested in a driving simulator -- patients with hemianopia have significantly more difficulty detecting pedestrians than normally sighted people. These results fly in ...

BOSTON, May 12 Innovative prism glasses can significantlyimprove the vision and the daily lives of patients with hemianopia, acondition that blinds half the visual field in both eyes. The peripheral ...

Researchers from the Schepens Eye Research Institute of Massachusetts Eye and Ear and Harvard Medical School have designed three new eyeglasses using high-power prisms to optimally expand the visual ...

Eye research charity Fight for Sight is partnering with the Stroke Association to test the effectiveness of a treatment for ‘retraining’ the eyes for people who experience a loss of vision after ...

BOSTON (Nov. 7, 2013) – More than a million Americans suffer from hemianopia, or blindness in one half of the visual field in both eyes as the result of strokes, tumors or trauma. People with ...

Purpose To determine new criteria for early detection of temporal hemianopia in patients with asymptomatic pituitary tumor. Methods Fifteen patients without visual symptoms had pituitary tumor and ...

Blindsight describes the phenomenon whereby individuals with damage to the primary visual cortex (V1) retain certain visually guided behaviours despite an absence of conscious visual perception. In ...