Eye-Search: A web-based therapy that improves visual search in hemianopia
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Journal Article
Abstract
Persisting hemianopia frequently complicates lesions of the posterior cerebral hemispheres, leaving patients impaired on a range of key activities of daily living. Practice-based therapies designed to induce compensatory eye movements can improve hemianopic patients' visual function, but are not readily available. We used a web-based therapy (Eye-Search) that retrains visual search saccades into patients' blind hemifield. A group of 78 suitable hemianopic patients took part. After therapy (800 trials over 11 days), search times into their impaired hemifield improved by an average of 24%. Patients also reported improvements in a subset of visually guided everyday activities, suggesting that Eye-Search therapy affects real-world outcomes.
Date Issued
2014-11-27
Date Acceptance
2014-11-06
Citation
Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, 2014, 2 (1), pp.74-78
ISSN
2328-9503
Publisher
Wiley
Start Page
74
End Page
78
Journal / Book Title
Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology
Volume
2
Issue
1
Copyright Statement
© 2014 The Authors. Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc on behalf of American Neurological Association. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
Identifier
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25642437
Publication Status
Published
Coverage Spatial
United States