1st Edition
by de Haan, Edward (Author)
An unprecedented book that
discusses a decades long journey of understanding vision and visual
impairment through working with patients with brain damage
Edward
de Haan, a noted clinical vision researcher for the last 35 years,
explains how the healthy brain deals with visual information and reveals
how he learned to appreciate what it means to be visually impaired.
Through discussions of fascinating case studies, he shows that visual
deficits are individually unique. Some patients perceive the world
without color, some see objects in a distorted manner, whilst others
will claim that they can still see although they are demonstrably blind.
The
author details his experiences with these patients to demonstrate the
manner in which patient work is a unique and vital part of discovering
how the brain processes visual information. In doing so, Impaired Vision offers
a review of the clinical symptoms related to visual impairment and
highlights that the patient study method has not lost any of its
relevance in our increasingly high-tech world. This important book:
- Explores the various clinical phenomena in visual impairment after brain damage
- Demonstrates the effectiveness of the patient study method for understanding visual deficits after brain damage
- Contains comprehensive coverage of the variety of symptoms that are manifest in patients with visual impairment
- Includes compelling case studies of visually impaired patients
Written for a general audience but of interest for students, researchers and clinicians, Impaired Vision
contains fascinating case studies that offer an understanding of the
symptoms that are associated with visuals deficits of brain damage.
