Diagnosis and treatment of cerebral venous thrombosis: a review

Y Luo, X Tian, X Wang - Frontiers in aging neuroscience, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT), also called cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST), is
a cerebrovascular disease with diverse clinical manifestations that often affects young …

Interventions for visual field defects in people with stroke

A Pollock, C Hazelton, FJ Rowe… - Cochrane Database …, 2019 - cochranelibrary.com
Background Visual field defects are estimated to affect 20% to 57% of people who have had
a stroke. Visual field defects can affect functional ability in activities of daily living (commonly …

Vision restoration after brain and retina damage: the “residual vision activation theory”

BA Sabel, P Henrich-Noack, A Fedorov, C Gall - Progress in brain research, 2011 - Elsevier
Vision loss after retinal or cerebral visual injury (CVI) was long considered to be irreversible.
However, there is considerable potential for vision restoration and recovery even in …

Spared perilesional V1 activity underlies training-induced recovery of luminance detection sensitivity in cortically-blind patients

A Barbot, A Das, MD Melnick, MR Cavanaugh… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Damage to the primary visual cortex (V1) causes homonymous visual-field loss long
considered intractable. Multiple studies now show that perceptual training can restore visual …

Boosting learning efficacy with noninvasive brain stimulation in intact and brain-damaged humans

F Herpich, MD Melnick, S Agosta… - Journal of …, 2019 - Soc Neuroscience
Numerous behavioral studies have shown that visual function can improve with training,
although perceptual refinements generally require weeks to months of training to attain …

Beyond blindsight: properties of visual relearning in cortically blind fields

A Das, D Tadin, KR Huxlin - Journal of Neuroscience, 2014 - Soc Neuroscience
Damage to the primary visual cortex (V1) or its immediate afferents results in a dense
scotoma, termed cortical blindness (CB). CB subjects have residual visual abilities, or …

Functional preservation and enhanced capacity for visual restoration in subacute occipital stroke

EL Saionz, D Tadin, MD Melnick, KR Huxlin - Brain, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Stroke damage to the primary visual cortex (V1) causes a loss of vision known as
hemianopia or cortically-induced blindness. While perimetric visual field improvements can …

Tool manipulation knowledge is retrieved by way of the ventral visual object processing pathway

J Almeida, AR Fintzi, BZ Mahon - Cortex, 2013 - Elsevier
Abstract Using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), we find that object
manipulation knowledge is accessed by way of the ventral object processing pathway. We …

Rehabilitation of visual perception in cortical blindness

EL Saionz, A Busza, KR Huxlin - Handbook of clinical neurology, 2022 - Elsevier
Blindness is a common sequela after stroke affecting the primary visual cortex, presenting as
a contralesional, homonymous, visual field cut. This can occur unilaterally or, less …

[HTML][HTML] The functional neuroanatomy of object agnosia: a case study

CS Konen, M Behrmann, M Nishimura, S Kastner - Neuron, 2011 - cell.com
Cortical reorganization of visual and object representations following neural injury was
examined using fMRI and behavioral investigations. We probed the visual responsivity of the …