Low vision is any type of visual impairment that affects activities of daily living. In the context
of low vision, we define plasticity as changes in brain or perceptual behavior that follow the …

The'bionic eye'—so long a dream of the future—is finally becoming a reality with retinal
prostheses available to patients in both the US and Europe. However, clinical experience …

Abstract The State of the Art is strong-to paraphrase another famous saying. Low vision
rehabilitation (LVR) is today a recognized discipline in Ophthalmology, expanding and …

purpose. To evaluate the effectiveness of a multidisciplinary low-vision rehabilitation
program on quality of life evaluated by the Impact of Vision Impairment (IVI) instrument …

Plasticity appears to be a ubiquitous property of nervous systems, regardless of
developmental stage or complexity. In the visual system of higher mammals, perceptual …

Following the onset of central vision loss, most patients develop an eccentric retinal location
outside the affected macular region, the preferred retinal locus (PRL), as their new reference …

When considering the burden of visual impairment on aging individuals and society at large,
it is important to bear in mind that vision changes are a natural aspect of aging. In this article …

This article reports on a study that explored the prevalence and predictors of functional
disability that are due to visual problems as opposed to functional disability that is due to …

Abstract Between 1-5: 100 people worldwide have never experienced normotypic vision due
to a condition called amblyopia, and about 1: 4000 suffer from inherited retinal dystrophies …

'Low vision'has an international classification as an impairment of vision that is defined by
loss of visual acuity and the size of the visual field. Functional classification that would depict …