Schepens Eye Research Institute scientists have found that--when tested in a driving simulator--patients with hemianopia (blindness in one half of the visual field in both eyes) have significantly ...

A diagnosis of hemianopia, or blindness in one-half of the visual field in both eyes as the result of strokes, tumors or trauma often means the end of driving. Researchers set out to determine the ...

We report a 23-year-old woman with right homonymous hemianopia and incomplete left inferior quadrantanopia and paracentral scotoma secondary to head trauma from a gunshot wound. The patient underwent ...

BOSTON (Nov. 7, 2013) – More than a million Americans suffer from hemianopia, or blindness in one half of the visual field in both eyes as the result of strokes, tumors or trauma. People with ...

Hemianopia is a loss of half a person’s peripheral vision. This means a person loses the right half or left half of vision in each eye. Hemianopia can occur from injury to the brain, such as a stroke.

Suddenly you can’t see to one side. It’s not that your left eye (or right) has stopped working entirely. It’s that you lose half of the visual field in both eyes. It’s like wearing glasses with a half ...

About one-third of patients who have suffered a stroke end up with low vision, losing up to half of their visual field. This partial blindness was long considered irreversible, but recent studies have ...

BOSTON (March 14, 2014) — A diagnosis of hemianopia, or blindness in one half of the visual field in both eyes as the result of strokes, tumors or trauma often means the end of driving. In about half ...