Advanced Spatiomotor Rehabilitation for Navigation in Blindness & Visual Impairment

Description

One of the most challenging tasks for blind and visually impaired individuals is navigation through a complex environment. The goal of the present multidisciplinary study is to increase spatial-cognition abilities in people who are blind or visually impaired through training with the previously-developed Cognitive-Kinesthetic Rehabilitation Training to improve navigation, and to investigate the resultant neuroplastic brain reorganization through multimodal brain imaging. In accordance with National Eye Institute (NEI) strategic goals, this multidisciplinary project will promote the development of well-informed new approaches to navigational rehabilitation, memory enhancement and cross-modal brain plasticity to benefit 'cutting edge' fields of mobile assistive technologies, vision restoration and memory facilitation for the aging brain.

Conditions

Blindness, Blindness, Acquired, Low Vision, Blindness, Complete

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Study overview

One of the most challenging tasks for blind and visually impaired individuals is navigation through a complex environment. The goal of the present multidisciplinary study is to increase spatial-cognition abilities in people who are blind or visually impaired through training with the previously-developed Cognitive-Kinesthetic Rehabilitation Training to improve navigation, and to investigate the resultant neuroplastic brain reorganization through multimodal brain imaging. In accordance with National Eye Institute (NEI) strategic goals, this multidisciplinary project will promote the development of well-informed new approaches to navigational rehabilitation, memory enhancement and cross-modal brain plasticity to benefit 'cutting edge' fields of mobile assistive technologies, vision restoration and memory facilitation for the aging brain.

Advanced Spatiomotor Rehabilitation for Navigation in Blindness & Visual Impairment

Advanced Spatiomotor Rehabilitation for Navigation in Blindness & Visual Impairment

Condition
Blindness
Intervention / Treatment

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Contacts and Locations

San Francisco

Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, San Francisco, California, United States, 94115

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

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Eligibility Criteria

  • * Vision from \< 20/500 to NLP (No Light Perception)
  • * Vision from \< 20/500 to NLP
  • * Within average gender range for height +/-1 standard deviation
  • * Within average gender range for weight +/-1 standard deviation
  • * Comfortable with MRI procedures
  • * Neurological deficits
  • * Inability to normally control lower or upper extremities
  • * Inability to hear and understand instructions.
  • * All standard MRI exclusion criteria, such as having any metallic objects in the body, or being too large to fit or operate comfortably in the scanner bore.

Ages Eligible for Study

18 Years to 80 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Collaborators and Investigators

Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute,

Lora T Likova, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, Senior Scientist

Study Record Dates

2024-02