Binocular therapy for childhood amblyopia improves vision without breaking interocular suppression

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Binocular therapy for childhood amblyopia improves vision without breaking interocular suppression

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Purpose: Amblyopia is a common developmental visual impairment characterized by a substantial difference in acuity between the two eyes. Current monocular treatments, which promote use of the affected eye by occluding or blurring the fellow eye, improve acuity, but are hindered by poor compliance. Recently developed binocular treatments can produce rapid gains in visual function, thought to be as a result of reduced interocular suppression. We set out to develop an effective home-based binocu...

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Journal article

Date created

2017-06

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Bossi, M / Tailor, VK / Anderson, EJ / Bex, PJ / Greenwood, JA / Dahlmann-Noor, A / Dakin, Steven

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http://hdl.handle.net/2292/36450

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Amblyopia / Child / Child, Preschool / Eyeglasses / Female / Follow-Up Studies / Humans / Male / Sensory Deprivation / Time Factors / Treatment Outcome / Vision, Binocular / Visual Acuity

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