In the context of neurological visual field loss we very often hear about hemianopia, the loss of the right or left half of the visual field in both eyes. However, some patients with neurological visual field loss find the term “quadrantanopia” in their medical records. If “hemianopia” means that you cannot see in half of...
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Are you allowed to drive a car when you have suffered a stroke, a traumatic brain injury other neurological disease? Can you drive a car with a visual field defect? A person who suffered a stroke or traumatic brain injury might have to face many impediments when he/she wants to drive a car again. Balance...
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Our previous blog The Eyes - Our Window To The World discussed the structure of our eye and how it works. In this blog, we discuss how the brain, in processing the information the eye is seeing, sometimes “fools” us into perceiving things differently to reality. This is very normal in everyday life but can also manifest...
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Hospitals provide extensive resources and expertise that enable doctors to rapidly diagnose and treat a wide range of diseases. However, being admitted to a hospital after a stroke or brain injury can be frightening and stressful for the patient and their loved ones. Even though being discharged from the hospital can be relieving for...
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We get most of the input from our surroundings through our eyes; they convey more input than any of our other senses. Every second the eyes absorb 10 million pieces of information and pass it on to the brain. Our vision adapts to different light conditions at cyber speed, refocuses within fractions of a second...
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Once in a while we like to share our patient’s real life stories like Carole’s or Annette’s, today we would like to share a patient testimonial we received from our office in Germany. Wilfried’s testimonial resonates with other patients that have told us of their skepticism before commencing NeuroEyeCoach or VRT, we hope that his story will encourage you to evaluate these...
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