Blindness - Pathology
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Category-specific organization in the human brain does not require visual experience.

11 Aug 2009 Distinct regions within the ventral visual pathway show neural specialization for nonliving and living stimuli (e.g., tools, houses versus animals, faces). The causes of these category preferences are widely debated. Using functional magnetic ... Read more...

A nonvisual look at the functional organization of visual cortex.

11 Aug 2009 In this issue of Neuron, Mahon et al. show that the ventral visual cortex of congenitally blind individuals, who have never experienced the visual world, has an object-category organization similar to that found in sighted individuals. Here, we ... Read more...

Orbitocranial wooden foreign body: a pre-, intra-, and postoperative chronicle: case report.

30 Jul 2009 OBJECTIVE: Intraorbital wooden foreign bodies--usually from a low-velocity puncture--are elusive and demand a low threshold for further imaging. In patients with traumatic injuries, orbital and intracranial air from fractures may be present, and it ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Blindness - Pathology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Category-specific organization in the human brain does not require visual experience. 11 Aug 2009
• A nonvisual look at the functional organization of visual cortex. 11 Aug 2009
• Orbitocranial wooden foreign body: a pre-, intra-, and postoperative chronicle: case report. 30 Jul 2009
• Spontaneous recanalization of the internal carotid artery resulting in thromboembolic occlusion of the ipsilateral ophthalmic artery and visual loss. 15 Jun 2009
• Leber congenital amaurosis caused by Lebercilin (LCA5) mutation: retained photoreceptors adjacent to retinal disorganization. 31 May 2009
• Identification and localization of functional subdivisions in the visual cortex of the adult mouse. 29 Apr 2009
• Morphological alterations in the congenital blind based on the analysis of cortical thickness and surface area. 6 Apr 2009
• Distribution of the inflammatory lesions in the central nervous system of dogs affected with disseminated and ocular form of granulomatous meningoencephalomyelitis. 30 Mar 2009
• Suspected sphenoid bone osteomyelitis causing visual impairment in two dogs and one cat. 27 Feb 2009
• Thick visual cortex in the early blind. 16 Feb 2009
• The RPGRIP1-deficient dog, a promising canine model for gene therapy. 16 Feb 2009
• Rhinocerebral mucormycosis in a 12-year-old girl. 30 Jan 2009
• A patient with loss of vision in the right eye and neurofibromatosis type 1. 18 Jan 2009
• Carpenter syndrome. 30 Dec 2008
• Abnormal diffusion of cerebral white matter in early blindness. 30 Dec 2008
• Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging of bilateral simultaneous optic nerve infarctions. 30 Dec 2008
• Putaminal necrosis due to methanol toxicity. 29 Nov 2008
• Diagnostic ophthalmology. Retinal degeneration. 30 Oct 2008
• Neural activity within area V1 reflects unconscious visual performance in a case of blindsight. 30 Oct 2008
• Clinical reasoning: a 42-year-old man with sequential monocular visual loss. 19 Oct 2008

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Technical information about 'Blindness'

Definition: The inability to see or the loss or absence of perception of visual stimuli. This condition may be the result of EYE DISEASES; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; OPTIC CHIASM diseases; or BRAIN DISEASES affecting the VISUAL PATHWAYS or OCCIPITAL LOBE.

Descriptor UI: D001766

Alternative terms: Blindness; Blindness, Acquired; Acquired Blindness; Blindness, Monocular; Monocular Blindness; Blindness, Hysterical; Hysterical Blindness; Blindness, Transient; Transient Blindness; Blindness, Legal; Legal Blindness; Amaurosis; Amauroses; Blindness, Complete; Complete Blindness;

Related Mesh Headings: Sensory Aids; Vision, Low;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; congenital; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; embryology; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; radiotherapy; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; veterinary; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: C10.597.751.941.162; C11.966.075; C23.888.592.763.941.162;

Technical Notes: for Braille coord IM with SENSORY AIDS (IM) + READING (IM)