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 ...

A multi-center study determined that real peripheral prism glasses are more helpful than sham peripheral prism glasses for patients with hemianopia during every day walking. More than a million ...

About one-third of patients who have suffered a stroke end up with low vision, losing up to half of their visual field. This partial blindness was long considered irreversible, but recent studies have ...

Rehabilitation of hemianopic dyslexia—an impairment of reading ability caused by loss of part of the visual field—can be achieved by compensatory oculomotor training. This training method uses ...

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 ...

Hemianopia is when you lose sight in half of your visual field. This condition is not a problem with your eyes. It occurs after a stroke or other brain injury. The type of hemianopia you have depends ...