ArticleInvestigative ophthalmology & visual science2019
Visual Crowding in Glaucoma.
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- Depression and Anxiety in Patients With Irreversible Vision Loss: Meta-Analysis and Systematic Review.International journal of psychiatry in medicine · 2026Pooled it
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- Measuring spatial and temporal properties of visual crowding using continuous psychophysics.Journal of vision · 2025Article
- Preliminary results of lateral interaction and radial deformity hyperacuity in children with glaucoma.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Elevated Visual Crowding in CRB1-Associated Retinopathies: Understanding Functional Visual Deficits Using Child-Friendly Computerized Testing.Investigative ophthalmology & visual science · 2025Article
- Treadmill-walking impairs visual function in early glaucoma and elderly controls.Graefe's archive for clinical and experimental ophthalmology = Albrecht von Graefes Archiv fur klinische und experimentelle Ophthalmologie · 2024Article
- Assessing Visual Crowding in Participants With Preperimetric Glaucoma Using Eye Movement and Manual Response Paradigms.Translational vision science & technology · 2024Article
- Impact of Glaucomatous Ganglion Cell Damage on Central Visual Function.Annual review of vision science · 2024Review
- Rapid assessment of peripheral visual crowding.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2024Article
- Assessing the reliability of web-based measurements of visual function.Behavior research methods · 2024Article
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- Cortical Reorganization After Optical Alignment in Strabismic Patients Outside of Critical Period.Investigative ophthalmology & visual science · 2023Article
- GABA decrease is associated with degraded neural specificity in the visual cortex of glaucoma patients.Communications biology · 2023Article
- Foveal crowding appears to be robust to normal aging and glaucoma unlike parafoveal and peripheral crowding.Journal of vision · 2022Article
- Effects of glaucoma on detection and discrimination of image blur.Ophthalmic & physiological optics : the journal of the British College of Ophthalmic Opticians (Optometrists) · 2022Article
- Binocularly Asymmetric Crowding in Glaucoma and a Lack of Binocular Summation in Crowding.Investigative ophthalmology & visual science · 2022Article
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Abstract
Purpose: Crowding refers to the phenomenon in which objects that can be recognized when viewed in isolation are unrecognizable in clutter. Crowding sets a fundamental limit to the capabilities of the peripheral vision and is essential in explaining performance in a broad array of daily tasks. Due to the effects of glaucoma on peripheral vision, we hypothesized that neural loss in the disease would lead to stronger effects of visual crowding. Methods: Subjects were asked to discriminate the orientation of a target letter when presented with surrounding flankers. The critical spacing value (scritical), which was required for correct discrimination of letter orientation, was obtained for each quadrant of the visual field. scritical values were correlated with standard automated perimetry (SAP) mean sensitivity (MS) and optical coherence tomography (OCT) retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) thickness measurements. Results: The study involved 13 subjects with mild glaucomatous visual field loss and 13 healthy controls. Glaucomatous eyes had significantly greater (worse) scritical than controls (170.4 ± 27.1 vs. 145.8 ± 28.0 minimum of visual angle, respectively; P = 0.007). scritical measurements were significantly associated with RNFL thickness measurements (R2 = 26%; P < 0.001) but not with SAP MS (P = 0.947). Conclusions: In glaucoma patients, a pronounced visual crowding effect is observed, even in the presence of mild visual field loss on standard perimetry. scritical was associated with the amount of neural loss quantified by OCT. These results may have implications for understanding how glaucoma patients are affected in daily tasks where crowding effects may be significant.
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