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Scotoma Perimetry Oculomotor Training
Sponsor: University of Alabama at Birmingham
Summary
The proposed research is relevant to public health because a greater understanding of plasticity after central vision loss can inform new therapies for treating low vision and has potential to benefit millions of individuals suffering from low vision. The treatment of low vision is particularly relevant to the mission of the NEI to support research on visual disorders, mechanisms of visual function and preservation of sight. Declines in vision are particularly common in older adults and thus increasing our understanding of how to cre- ate effective means of improving vision is also highly relevant to the mission of the NIA to support research on aging and the health and well-being of older people.
Official title: New Methods to Quantify and Train Eye Movement Strategies in Macular Degeneration
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
18 Years - 89 Years
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
21
Start Date
2022-11-01
Completion Date
2025-06-30
Last Updated
2026-09-29
Healthy Volunteers
No
Interventions
'Scotoma awareness' Training
In the 'scotoma awareness' training, patients will perform visual search and orientation discrimination tasks while an opaque occluder, custom-tailored to overlap each patient's retinal scotoma, is constantly presented on the computer screen.
Control Training
The task will be performed in the control group without the visible scotoma.
Locations (1)
UAB
Birmingham, Alabama, United States