Rossi et al ., 1990, was the first article to establish the use of prism adaptation as a tool in rehabilitation of symptoms of both hemianopia and of Unilateral neglect.
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According to Pollock et al . ( 2010 ) stroke is the main cause of specific visual impairment, most frequently visual field loss ( homonymous hemianopia-a visual field defect ).
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Rarely, scotomata are diagnosis, as it is more difficult to detect by cursory clinical examination than the classical or textbook bitemporal peripheral hemianopia and may even elude sophisticated electronic modes of visual-field assessment.
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These include weakness of one side of the body ( hemiparesis ), loss of vision for one side of the visual field ( hemianopia ), and cognitive difficulties ( affecting learning, memory or language, for example ).
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"' Bitemporal hemianopsia "'( a . k . a . "'bitemporal heteronymous hemianopsia "'or "'bitemporal hemianopia "') is the medical description of a type of partial blindness where vision is missing in the outer half of both the right and left visual field.
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The concept of functional disconnection developed further with Stachowiak and Poeck in 1976 . who reported on a case in 1976 of a 67-yr-old male with hemianopia resulting from a cerebrovascular accident resulting in pure auditory, and visual systems ), so that pathways other than the one impaired by the brain lesion are used.
