Visual dysfunction in Parkinson's disease

RS Weil, AE Schrag, JD Warren, SJ Crutch, AJ Lees… - Brain, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Patients with Parkinson's disease have a number of specific visual disturbances. These
include changes in colour vision and contrast sensitivity and difficulties with complex visual …

Functional changes and driving performance in older drivers: assessment and interventions

M Karthaus, M Falkenstein - Geriatrics, 2016 - mdpi.com
With the increasing aging of the population, the number of older drivers is rising. Driving is a
significant factor for quality of life and independence concerning social and working life. On …

Age‐related sensory impairments and risk of cognitive impairment

ME Fischer, KJ Cruickshanks… - Journal of the …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives To evaluate the associations between sensory impairments and 10‐year risk of
cognitive impairment. Design The Epidemiology of Hearing Loss Study (EHLS), a …

Visual and ocular manifestations of Alzheimer's disease and their use as biomarkers for diagnosis and progression

FZ Javaid, J Brenton, L Guo, MF Cordeiro - Frontiers in neurology, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia affecting the growing aging
population today, with prevalence expected to rise over the next 35 years. Clinically, patients …

Vision and aging

C Owsley - Annual review of vision science, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Research on aging and vision has increased dramatically over the past few decades.
Changes in our visual capacities in later adulthood have the potential to impact our ability to …

Clinical endpoints for the study of geographic atrophy secondary to age-related macular degeneration

SVR Sadda, U Chakravarthy, DG Birch, G Staurenghi… - Retina, 2016 - journals.lww.com
Purpose: To summarize the recent literature describing the application of modern
technologies in the study of patients with geographic atrophy (GA) secondary to age-related …

Association between glaucoma and at–fault motor vehicle collision involvement among older drivers: a population-based study

MY Kwon, C Huisingh, LA Rhodes, G McGwin Jr… - Ophthalmology, 2016 - Elsevier
Objective To examine the association between glaucoma and motor vehicle collision (MVC)
involvement among older drivers, including the role of visual field impairment that may …

Approaches in methodology for population-based longitudinal study on neuroprotective model for healthy longevity (TUA) among Malaysian Older Adults

S Shahar, A Omar, D Vanoh, TA Hamid… - Aging clinical and …, 2016 - Springer
A number of longitudinal studies on aging have been designed to determine the predictors
of healthy longevity, including the neuroprotective factors, however, relatively few studies …

Comparison of visual function in older eyes in the earliest stages of age-related macular degeneration to those in normal macular health

C Owsley, C Huisingh, ME Clark, GR Jackson… - Current eye …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose: To compare the ability of several visual functional tests in terms of the strength of
their associations with the earliest phases of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) …

Comparing the shape of contrast sensitivity functions for normal and low vision

STL Chung, GE Legge - Investigative ophthalmology & visual …, 2016 - iovs.arvojournals.org
Purpose: The contrast sensitivity function (CSF) provides a detailed description of an
individual's spatial-pattern detection capability. We tested the hypothesis that the CSFs of …