Navigation Links
Vision restoration therapy shown to improve brain activity in brain injured patients
Date:8/13/2007

Columbia University Medical Center researchers have demonstrated using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), that brain activity was increased in stroke and traumatic brain injury survivors who underwent Vision Restoration Therapy (VRT), a rehabilitative treatment that helps these patients recover lost vision. The data will be published online in the peer-reviewed journal Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair on Aug. 14, 2007 at http://nnr.sagepub.com/pap.dtl.

Researchers, led by Randolph S. Marshall, M.D., M.S., associate professor of clinical neurology and acting director, Division of Stroke and Critical Care at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, examined the fMRIs of six patients aged 35-77 with vision loss on the same side of both eyes (called homonymous hemianopia) caused by stroke or traumatic brain injury. The therapy is based on visual stimulation, which the patient performs daily at home on a dedicated computer device. The fMRI data showed increased activity in visual processing areas of the brain as patients learned to detect stimuli in the borderzone between the seeing and non-seeing fields. This enhanced activity was identified one month after beginning treatment and suggests that the brain is responding accordingly.

This study is encouraging because the fMRI technique allowed us to see and compare the activity levels in specific regions of the brain before and during Vision Restoration Therapy. After examining the images, the increased activity levels demonstrate progress associated with the treatment, said Dr. Marshall. Based on these initial results, we will continue to investigate the relationship between the imaging findings and the degree to which vision is recovered.

The publication of Dr. Marshalls study in Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair underscores the growing scientific evidence validating Vision Restoration Therapy. For hundreds
'/>"/>

Contact: Elizabeth Streich
eas2125@columbia.edu
212-305-6535
Columbia University Medical Center
Source:Eurekalert

3

GOOD

Page: 1 2

Related medicine news :

1. Role of fats and oils in vision care
2. Genes for Vision discovered
3. Watching television for long hours could lead to agressiveness
4. Body mass index guide needs revision
5. Putting cancer risk with a vision
6. Risk Factors for vision problems in Diabetes
7. Watching television linked to smoking
8. Vision loss could result due to MSG
9. Televisions ruling babys world!
10. Preventing Vision Loss
11. Preventing Vision Loss
Post Your Comments:
*Name:
*Comment:
*Email:
(Date:10/10/2008)...ick Teams Up with Legal and Medical Panel to Offer...Careers Seminar in,Knoxville, KNOXVILLE, Tenn., O...Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Cancer and Careers ...with YWCA Knoxville, The Wellness Community-East,T... University of Tennessee,women,s basketball associ...
(Date:10/10/2008)... The Healthcare Technology Evolution: Smarter... Exton, PA (PRWEB) September 17, 2008 -...he national Healthcare Information Management Syst...regional health information technology professiona...tled The Healthcare Technology Evolution: Smarter ...
(Date:10/10/2008)...edical Center (BMC) has received a $5,807,469 gran...ging (NIA) to fund the Boston Claude D. Pepper Old...ter is one of only 11 Pepper Centers in the countr...endence Center Program was established in honor of...ida. During his five decades of public service, Pe...
(Date:10/10/2008)... metabolic information from PET to traditional CT ...for maximized workflow efficiency an...t. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Siemens Healthcare, (http://...CT, a new concept in,integrated imaging that provi... solution for today,s shrinking healthcare budget....
Breaking Medicine News(10 mins):Health News:Local Experts Help Women Living and Working with Cancer Even the Score 2Health News:Local Experts Help Women Living and Working with Cancer Even the Score 3Health News:Local Experts Help Women Living and Working with Cancer Even the Score 4Health News:HIMSS New Jersey and Delaware Valley Chapters Sponsor Regional Conference 2Health News:Boston Medical Center receives $5.8m grant 2Health News:Siemens Shapes the Future of Integrated Diagnostic Imaging 2Health News:Siemens Shapes the Future of Integrated Diagnostic Imaging 3Health News:Siemens Shapes the Future of Integrated Diagnostic Imaging 4
...merican Association for Cancer Research has leaned...ing skin with broccoli and garlic after several st...tues of the same.// After being [resented with ir...e view that the best way of prolonging your life m...
...gues have found a new cheek cell analysis which de...nd a simple, inexpensive and early screening metho...gh risk for cancer using buccal mucosa or cells sc...contain information that separates patients with l...
...ection methods use heart activity, but now the sto... for lie detection reports the online edition of N...richa at the University of Texas found that the he...ot only by the brain but also by factors such as h...
...ee of polio. Only 30 cases have been reported till...ase by government of India.// In the whole of 2...ily Welfare Minister, Dr. Anbumani Ramadoss is exp...end of this year or early next year that India is ...
Other Medicine News:Health News:Early Lung cancer detected by studying Cheek Cells 2
(Date:10/10/2008)...SWARTZ CREEK, Mich., Oct. 10 /- Diplo...euroscience has selected Diplomat,Specialty Pharma... a large,scale, national Therapy Optimization Stud...the two year TOP MS study, is to examine the benef...gram on compliance, adherence and,patient outcomes...
(Date:10/10/2008)...WALTHAM, Mass., Oct. 10 /- ... a leading provider of near-patient,diagnostics, m...terday with,Ban Ki-moon, the Secretary-General of ...xecutives of seventeen of the world,s leading,rese...ic companies.,Inverness, together with senior offi...
(Date:10/10/2008)...PLEASANTON, Calif., Oct. 10 /- TriRem...een authorized to affix the CE (Conformite,Europee...es(TM) Coronary,Stent System, a unique main vessel...r coronary bifurcations., Representing the next g... system has potential use in a quarter of the 2.2 ...
(Date:10/9/2008)...World Sight Day 2008 focuses on the need to protec.../- Of the 45 million people worldwide...ree-quarters of them could,have avoided their blin...ed., To view the Multimedia News Release, go to:,...on, the world,s leader in eye care products and eq...
Breaking Medicine Technology:Diplomat Specialty Pharmacy Tapped by Teva Neuroscience for Therapy Optimization Study for Multiple Sclerosis (TOP MS) 2Inverness Medical Innovations Participates in Meeting on HIV/AIDS with UN Secretary-General 2Inverness Medical Innovations Participates in Meeting on HIV/AIDS with UN Secretary-General 3TriReme Medical Inc. Receives CE Marking for Antares(TM) Coronary Stent System 2ORBIS and Alcon Call Attention to the Aging Eye 2ORBIS and Alcon Call Attention to the Aging Eye 3Baxter Adds Recombinant Protein to Specialty Therapeutics Portfolio 1287 1Baxter Adds Recombinant Protein to Specialty Therapeutics Portfolio 1287 2Baxter Adds Recombinant Protein to Specialty Therapeutics Portfolio 1287 3Baxter Adds Recombinant Protein to Specialty Therapeutics Portfolio 1287 4XTENT to Present CUSTOM I and CUSTOM II Trial Data at TCT 2007 533 1XTENT to Present CUSTOM I and CUSTOM II Trial Data at TCT 2007 533 2XTENT to Present CUSTOM I and CUSTOM II Trial Data at TCT 2007 533 3 244 million AHRQ grant supports research to improve hospital care 3776 1 244 million AHRQ grant supports research to improve hospital care 3776 2UD named a regional research participant in National Children 26 23146 3Bs Study 819 1UD named a regional research participant in National Children 26 23146 3Bs Study 819 2
...Journal of Clinical Oncology -, NEW YORK, July 06,...se II study - which will be published in the Augus...gy (JCO) and are now,available as an Early Release...co.org/">www.jco.org - demonstrate that,ixabepilo...,compound, has activity in patients with metastati...
...25, an Investigational NNRTI,from Tibotec, YARDLEY...,ongoing Phase 3 studies (DUET-1 and DUET-2) showe...umented non-nucleoside reverse,transcriptase inhib...e reached an undetectable viral load (defined as a...NA copies/mL) with,TMC125 (etravirine), Tibotec,s ...
Other Medicine Technology:Study Shows Ixabepilone Demonstrated Clear Activity in Patients,with Metastatic Breast Cancer Resistant to Anthracycline, Taxane,and Capecitabine 2Study Shows Ixabepilone Demonstrated Clear Activity in Patients,with Metastatic Breast Cancer Resistant to Anthracycline, Taxane,and Capecitabine 3Study Shows Ixabepilone Demonstrated Clear Activity in Patients,with Metastatic Breast Cancer Resistant to Anthracycline, Taxane,and Capecitabine 4TMC125 Showed Significant Virologic Response at Week 24 in,Treatment-Experienced HIV Patients With NNRTI Resistance in Phase 3,Trials 2TMC125 Showed Significant Virologic Response at Week 24 in,Treatment-Experienced HIV Patients With NNRTI Resistance in Phase 3,Trials 3TMC125 Showed Significant Virologic Response at Week 24 in,Treatment-Experienced HIV Patients With NNRTI Resistance in Phase 3,Trials 4
...veloped a range of Milli-Q ultrapure water systems...ents. Each of the five new Milli-Q systems is desi...al to particular applications such as HPLC, molecu...high precision resistivity monitor that records co...
...veloped a range of Milli-Q ultrapure water systems...ents. Each of the five new Milli-Q systems is desi...al to particular applications such as HPLC, molecu...high precision resistivity monitor that records co...
Inquire
Adjustable speed vortex with inter-changeable heads, 110 V
Medicine Products: