Josef Zihl – författare

This thoroughly updated and extended edition covers the various cerebral visual disorders acquired after brain injury, as well as the rehabilitation techniques used to treat them. These are described within a brain plasticity framework, using data from single and group case studies along with follow up observation data. This original, tailor-made approach also includes the recording of eye movements for assessing scanning performance in scene perception and reading.The book gives a brief synopsis of the historical background on the subject, alongside an outline of intervention designs and methodological difficulties in the field, and goes on to discuss the mechanisms and processes that provide the foundations for recovery of function and successful adaptation in visually impaired patients. The author concludes by analyzing the importance of the procedures and outcomes of treatments to the reduction of patients’ visual handicaps.The new edition also contains an appendix with recommendations on the case histories, diagnostics and treatments. It is ideal reading for students in clinical neuropsychology, as well as professionals in the fields of neurology, visual neuroscience and rehabilitation experts.

This thoroughly updated and extended edition covers the various cerebral visual disorders acquired after brain injury, as well as the rehabilitation techniques used to treat them. These are described within a brain plasticity framework, using data from single and group case studies along with follow up observation data. This original, tailor-made approach also includes the recording of eye movements for assessing scanning performance in scene perception and reading.The book gives a brief synopsis of the historical background on the subject, alongside an outline of intervention designs and methodological difficulties in the field, and goes on to discuss the mechanisms and processes that provide the foundations for recovery of function and successful adaptation in visually impaired patients. The author concludes by analyzing the importance of the procedures and outcomes of treatments to the reduction of patients’ visual handicaps.The new edition also contains an appendix with recommendations on the case histories, diagnostics and treatments. It is ideal reading for students in clinical neuropsychology, as well as professionals in the fields of neurology, visual neuroscience and rehabilitation experts.

Das Buch beschäftigt sich mit zerebralen Sehstörungen bei Kindern sowie deren modernen diagnostischen und therapeutischen Optionen. Die Autoren skizzieren in gut verständlicher Weise Organisation und Funktionsweise des Zentralnervensystems, insbesondere des visuellen Systems und der Okulomotor, die Entwicklung der verschiedenen Teilleistungen, ihre Störungen, Aspekte der Sehbehinderung sowie Diagnostik und Dokumentation von Funktionsstörungen. Die Inhalte wurden überarbeitet und aktualisiert und um neue Konzepte wie das CVI (Cerebral visual impairment) ergänzt. Ausführliche Anleitungen geben Hilfestellung für die konkrete Vorgehensweise in der Behandlung von Kindern mit CVI, anschauliche Fallbeispiele schlagen die Brücke in die Praxis.Das Buch richtet sich an den interdisziplinären Leserkreis jener Berufsgruppen, die Kinder mit zerebralen Sehstörungen betreuen, wie KinderärztInnen, AugenärztInnen, NeuropsychologInnen, OrthoptistInnen, SonderpädagogInnen uvm.

Cerebral visual disorders have far-reaching consequences for child development. It covers the development and disorders of visual perception in children, their assessment, early intervention and management in an interdisciplinary context, both from a scientific as well as clinical perspective.