It is generally appreciated that patients with macular disease frequently experience reduced
visual acuity. It is not as widely appreciated that they often have significant central visual …

Objective To investigate the rehabilitative approach in patients with ring scotoma. A central
scotoma is characteristic for patients with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) …

Central scotomas—areas of the nonseeing retina within the central 20 degrees of the visual
field—are present in approximately 90% of vision rehabilitation patients (Fletcher & …

Purpose. To assess whether age-related macular degeneration (AMD) patients are aware of
binocular central visual field defects. Methods. One hundred fifty-three consecutive AMD …

Individuals with longstanding macular scotomas use an idiosyncratic, non-foveal retinal area
adjacent to the scotoma to fixate and to inspect detailed visual stimuli (1). It is not known …

People with macular scotoma tend to read and visually scan more slowly than others with
equivalently reduced visual acuity but intact central fields. We measured fixation eye …

Purpose: To determine if: 1) monocular projection perimetry with fixation control is as
accurate as SLO perimetry; 2) monocular visual fields accurately predict binocular visual …

To investigate how patients with macular scotomas use residual functional retinal areas to
inspect visual detail, a scanning laser ophthalmoscope (SLO) was used to map the retinal …

Many patients with macular scotomas due to age-related macular degeneration do not
perceive black spots in the visual field where the scotomas are located. Rather, they …

There is evidence that some patients with damaged macular vision can improve their visual
performance by learning to utilize intact parts of the retina for" eccentric viewing"(Holcomb …