The treatment of amblyopia: current practice and emerging trends

E Papageorgiou, I Asproudis, G Maconachie… - Graefe's Archive for …, 2019 - Springer
Purpose The purpose of this review is to provide an update on current management and
recent research for amblyopia treatment. Part I will review patching, atropine penalization …

Visual perceptual learning

ZL Lu, T Hua, CB Huang, Y Zhou, BA Dosher - Neurobiology of learning …, 2011 - Elsevier
Perceptual learning refers to the phenomenon that practice or training in perceptual tasks
often substantially improves perceptual performance. Often exhibiting stimulus or task …

[HTML][HTML] Video-game play induces plasticity in the visual system of adults with amblyopia

RW Li, C Ngo, J Nguyen, DM Levi - PLoS biology, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Abnormal visual experience during a sensitive period of development disrupts neuronal
circuitry in the visual cortex and results in abnormal spatial vision or amblyopia. Here we …

[HTML][HTML] A dichoptic custom-made action video game as a treatment for adult amblyopia

I Vedamurthy, M Nahum, SJ Huang, F Zheng, J Bayliss… - Vision research, 2015 - Elsevier
Previous studies have employed different experimental approaches to enhance visual
function in adults with amblyopia including perceptual learning, videogame play, and …

Broad bandwidth of perceptual learning in the visual system of adults with anisometropic amblyopia

CB Huang, Y Zhou, ZL Lu - Proceedings of the National …, 2008 - National Acad Sciences
Recent studies have demonstrated that training adult amblyopes in simple visual tasks leads
to significant improvements of their spatial vision. One critical question is: How much can …

[HTML][HTML] An exploratory study: prolonged periods of binocular stimulation can provide an effective treatment for childhood amblyopia

PJ Knox, AJ Simmers, LS Gray… - … ophthalmology & visual …, 2012 - jov.arvojournals.org
Purpose.: The purpose of the present study was to explore the potential for treating
childhood amblyopia with a binocular stimulus designed to correlate the visual input from …

Recovery of stereopsis through perceptual learning in human adults with abnormal binocular vision

J Ding, DM Levi - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
Stereopsis, the perception of depth based on the disparity of the images projected to the
retinas of the two eyes, is an important process in our three-dimensional world; however, 3 …

[HTML][HTML] Making perceptual learning practical to improve visual functions

U Polat - Vision research, 2009 - Elsevier
Task-specific improvement in performance after training is well established. The finding that
learning is stimulus-specific and does not transfer well between different stimuli, between …

Prolonged perceptual learning of positional acuity in adult amblyopia: perceptual template retuning dynamics

RW Li, SA Klein, DM Levi - Journal of Neuroscience, 2008 - Soc Neuroscience
Amblyopia is a developmental abnormality that results in physiological alterations in the
visual cortex and impairs form vision. It is often successfully treated by patching the sound …

[HTML][HTML] Perceptual learning improves stereoacuity in amblyopia

J Xi, WL Jia, LX Feng, ZL Lu… - … ophthalmology & visual …, 2014 - iovs.arvojournals.org
Purpose.: Amblyopia is a developmental disorder that results in both monocular and
binocular deficits. Although traditional treatment in clinical practice (ie, refractive correction …