A Behavioral Treatment for Traumatic Brain Injury-associated Visual Dysfunction Based on Adult Cortical Plasticity
Abstract
Despite administrative difficulties that delayed the initiation of the protocol parts involving human subjects, we were ready with all issues that did not involve human subjects, an accomplishment that enabled us to start the human testing immediately once the approval was achieved. To date, we are about to close the gap and will be able to perform the experiment as planed during the next few months. The initial pretests experiments are going very well. We have already performed the pre-test on 10 subjects. The pretest measurements will be compared to similar measurements after the treatment is completed (at posttest) in order to evaluate the accomplished improvement. Moreover, we start having initial results of training in healthy subjects, showing improvement if contrast sensitivity, both in the fovea and periphery. We will start to summarize initial post-test results next quarter. After receiving the first post-test results from the ongoing group, we plan to refine and test a slightly different training protocol in order to choose the optimal protocol for training the TBI patients.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2011
- Accession Number
- ADA554227
Entities
People
- Anna Sterkin
- Uri Polat
Organizations
- Tel Aviv University