Late age-related maculopathy (ARM) is responsible for the majority of blind registrations in
the Western world among persons over 50 years of age. It has devastating effects on quality …

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD), affecting the retina, afflicts one out of ten people
aged 80 years or older in the United States. AMD often results in vision loss to the central 15 …

Purpose: The authors identified patterns in preferred retinal locus (PRL) ability and location
relative to macular scotomas in a low-vision patient population. Methods: Scanning laser …

OBJECTIVE: To observe the development of the preferred retinal locus (PRL) in a group of
patients with central scotomas caused by recent onset macular disease (MD). DESIGN …

Foundations of Low Vision: Clinical and Functional Perspectives, the ground-breaking text
that highlighted the importance of focusing on the functional as well as the clinical …

Images from high-resolution scanning ophthalmic instruments are significantly distorted due
to eye movement. Accurate image registration is required to successfully image subjects …

Clinicians need to estimate how well their low-vision patients will perform everyday visual
tasks such as reading or driving. Typically, it is not practical to measure task performance …

Background: Patients with macular disease and central scotomas must use a peripheral,
preferred retinal locus (PRL) in place of their damaged fovea. This paper investigates the …

Persons with amblyopia, especially those with strabismus, are known to exhibit abnormal
fixational eye movements. In this paper, we compared six characteristics of fixational eye …

Purpose.: Perceptual learning has been shown to be effective in improving visual functions
in the normal adult visual system, as well as in adults with amblyopia. In this study, the …