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 …

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 …

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 …

Visual experience induces long-term potentiation in the primary visual cortex

SF Cooke, MF Bear - Journal of Neuroscience, 2010 - Soc Neuroscience
Stimulus-specific response potentiation (SRP) is a robust form of experience-dependent
plasticity that occurs in primary visual cortex. In awake mice, visual evoked potentials (VEPs) …

[HTML][HTML] An action video game for the treatment of amblyopia in children: a feasibility study

C Gambacorta, M Nahum, I Vedamurthy, J Bayliss… - Vision research, 2018 - Elsevier
The gold-standard treatment for childhood amblyopia remains patching or penalizing the
fellow eye, resulting in an average of about a one line (0.1 logMAR) improvement in visual …

The potential of virtual reality for inducing neuroplasticity in children with amblyopia

MB Coco-Martin, DP Piñero, L Leal-Vega… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, virtual reality (VR) has emerged as a new safe and effective tool for
neurorehabilitation of different childhood and adulthood conditions. VR‐based therapies …

New concepts concerning the neural mechanisms of amblyopia and their clinical implications

AMF Wong - Canadian Journal of Ophthalmology, 2012 - Elsevier
Amblyopia is a visual impairment secondary to abnormal visual experience (eg, strabismus,
anisometropia, form deprivation) during early childhood that cannot be corrected …

[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 …

Early visual training and environmental adaptation for infants with visual impairment

E Fazzi, S Micheletti, S Calza, L Merabet… - … Medicine & Child …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Aim To evaluate the effectiveness of early visual training and environmental adaptation on
visual function and neurological development in infants with visual impairment. Method This …

[HTML][HTML] Efficiency of electronically monitored amblyopia treatment between 5 and 16 years of age: new insight into declining susceptibility of the visual system

M Fronius, L Cirina, H Ackermann, T Kohnen, CM Diehl - Vision research, 2014 - Elsevier
The notion of a limited, early period of plasticity of the visual system has been challenged by
more recent research demonstrating functional enhancement even into adulthood. In …