ArticleNeural plasticity2019
Inverse Occlusion: A Binocularly Motivated Treatment for Amblyopia.
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- Short-term homeostatic visual neuroplasticity in adolescents after two hours of monocular deprivation.IBRO neuroscience reports · 2023Article
- Internal neural states influence the short-term effect of monocular deprivation in human adults.eLife · 2023Article
- Reduced interocular suppression after inverse patching in anisometropic amblyopia.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
- Negligible contribution of adaptation of ocular opponency neurons to the effect of short-term monocular deprivation.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Short-term monocular pattern deprivation reduces the internal additive noise of the visual system.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
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- Issues Revisited: Shifts in Binocular Balance Depend on the Deprivation Duration in Normal and Amblyopic Adults.Ophthalmology and therapy · 2022Article
- The shift in sensory eye dominance from short-term monocular deprivation exhibits no dependence on test spatial frequency.Eye and vision (London, England) · 2022Article
- Altered functional connectivity of the thalamus in primary angle-closure glaucoma patients: A resting-state fMRI study.Frontiers in neurology · 2022Article
- The development of active binocular vision under normal and alternate rearing conditions.eLife · 2021Article
- Some psychophysical tasks measure ocular dominance plasticity more reliably than others.Journal of vision · 2021Article
- Rethinking amblyopia 2020.Vision research · 2020Review
- Brief period of monocular deprivation drives changes in audiovisual temporal perception.Journal of vision · 2020Article
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Abstract
Recent laboratory findings suggest that short-term patching of the amblyopic eye (i.e., inverse occlusion) results in a larger and more sustained improvement in the binocular balance compared with normal controls. In this study, we investigate the cumulative effects of the short-term inverse occlusion in adults and old children with amblyopia. This is a prospective cohort study of 18 amblyopes (10-35 years old; 2 with strabismus) who have been subjected to 2 hours/day of inverse occlusion for 2 months. Patients who required refractive correction or whose refractive correction needed updating were given a 2-month period of refractive adaptation. The primary outcome measure was the binocular balance which was measured using a phase combination task; the secondary outcome measures were the best-corrected visual acuity which was measured with a Tumbling E acuity chart and converted to logMAR units and the stereoacuity which was measured with the Random-dot preschool stereogram test. The average binocular gain was 0.11 in terms of the effective contrast ratio (
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