Sentences with phrase «visual field loss»

The research also highlighted disc hemorrhage as «an indirect sign» of visual field loss which might already have happened, and erosion of the visual field as well as thinning of the cornea as predictors of the progression of glaucoma.

According to Cynthia Owsley, Ph.D., M.S.P.H., University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine, moderate to severe visual field loss due to glaucoma, in the central 30 degrees in at least one eye elevates crash risk.

Most importantly, for being able to detect glaucoma in cases where people have not yet reported visual field loss and pressures are normal.

Central visual field loss, a scotoma or blind area in central vision, is found most commonly in patients with age - related macular degeneration (AMD).

«Driving with Central Visual Field Loss II: How Scotomas Affect Hazard Detection in a Driving Simulator» has just been published in the Sep. 2, 2015 PLOS ONE.

Various studies have identified different problems associated with moderate peripheral visual field loss from glaucoma.

A recent study found that some areas of visual field loss may be more associated with driving problems than others (specifically, the left - hand portion of the visual field).

The game will use principles derived from existing programmes used in adults with visual field loss, whereby patients have to search for hard - to - find objects on a computer screen (a «visual search» task), but the game will be modified to make the task more stimulating and fun for children and structured to maximise the efficiency of learning.

«Our game will be a fun computer based tool which will benefit children with visual field loss — holes in their vision due to damage to the brain's visual pathways.

Not exact matches

The term visual field is often used in ophthalmology, where a visual field test is used to determine whether the visual field is affected by diseases that cause local scotoma or a more extensive loss of vision.

Dr. Sabel suggests that the massive visual stimulation presented during VRT enhances visual recovery by forcing subjects to focus their attention on «compromised» sectors of the visual field which are partially damaged and repeating this daily helps recover vision loss.

Researchers from the Institute of Medical Psychology and Department of Computer Sciences, Otto - von - Guericke - University of Magdeburg, and the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self - Organisation, Goettingen, Germany, conducted a retrospective analysis of multiple visual field tests before and after at least six months of VRT in 32 stroke patients with hemianopia, which is a loss of vision in half of the visual field.

Glaucoma specialists attempt to track the vision loss caused by ganglion cell death with visual field testing.

Current biomarkers that we have for glaucoma, intraocular pressure or visual field, are indirect measures at best; what's really causing the disease is the loss of ganglion cell function.

Project: Exploring Loss and Recovery of Visual Receptive Field Properties in Populations of Retinal Ganglion Cells in a Glaucoma Model

For all of his obvious skills and uncommon talent as a visual storyteller, Kosinski's first two films were short on character depth and emotional engagement, but whether a function of Kosinski's innate preferences for spectacle over substance or simply script - related issues, Kosinski's feature - film output made him an odd, left - of - field choice to direct a film about American firefighters and the Yarnell Hill Fire of 2013 that resulted in the greatest loss of firefighters since 9 - 11 more than a decade earlier.

The term «optic neuritis» compromises all diseases of the optic nerve that cause deterioration and usually produce a sudden visual field problem or total loss of vision in one or both eyes.

We saw a virtuoso demonstration of 3D modeling in VR, game engines reapplied to purposes like architectural rendering where entire forests could be pasted into a giant, open field with no lag or loss of visual detail.