Krystel Huxlin (University of Rochester) on rehabilitating visual motion perception

European Stroke Conference, Hamburg 2011

The European Stroke Conference will take place in Hamburg this year, 24-27 May.

For details, see this web site.

For those with an interest in vision, see teaching course 6, Tuesday 24 May, 15:30-17:30:
 "Stroke syndromes of the posterior circulation"
Includes talks:
Brain-stem ischemic stroke eponyms – an update
J.S. Kim, South Korea
Oculomotor presentations of brain-stem ischemia
D. Kömpf, Germany
Ischemic stroke patterns in the posterior cerebral artery territory
R. Kern, Germany

RNIB Stroke and Vision

Web page from the RNIB (Royal National Institute of the Blind, UK) describing visual problems due to stroke.  Follow this link.

Tuebingen visual search / saccade training programme (VISIOcoach)

The University of Tuebingen Low Vision Clinic produces a saccadic training programme for patients with hemianopia, VISIOcoach.  It encourages saccdes into the blind hemifield.  It's based on this 2009 publication in the journal Neurology.  It costs around 300 Euros + tax.  The authors don't have any financial interest (which is reassuring).

Vycor Medical buys NovaVision

NovaVision, the US company producing a controversial visual rehabilitation programme, has been bought by Vycor Medical, producers of neurosurgical retraction devices.  The NovaVision method has been around for some years since their original trial was published in Nature Medicine.  Unfortunately this trial was very significantly flawed, and the method has been the subject of controversy ever since.

News article on completion of Vycor acquisition (12 January 2011)


News article on commencement of Vycor acquisition (11 November 2010)

Cochrane Review of Interventions for Visual Field Loss after Stroke

The provisional findings of the recent Cochrane Review of Interventions for Visual Field Loss after Stroke were presented at the UK Stroke Forum 2010. Click this link to download the poster (PDF format).  The recommendations are currently under peer review.

Reading impairment in Stroke - UK Stroke Forum podcast

Dr Fiona Rowe, Liverpool University, describes a study of reading impairment in stroke, part of the VIS (Vision in Stroke) study, in this UK Stroke Forum Podcast