About twenty percent of patients with acquired brain injury suffer from visual deficits; the examination and treatment of these patients therefore represents a particular challenge in its own right. Furthermore, adequate visual perception is a crucial prerequisite for almost all cognitive and motor activities. Despite a long research tradition in visual neuroscience, the rehabilitation of cerebral visual deficits has, until recently, been neglected. This book is the first to report systematic observations on spontaneous recovery of cerebral visual deficits after acquired brain injury, and the...

Das Buch gibt einen ausf}hrlichen Oberblick }ber die nach einer Hirnsch{digung beim Erwachsenen auftretenden St-run- gen. Methoden und Ergebnisse der klinischen Neuropsychologie werden in ihrer Bedeutung f}r dieDiagnostik und Behandlung der verschiedenen Leistungseinbu en im Rahmen der Rehabili- tation dargestellt und diskutiert.

This second edition covers the various cerebral visual disorders acquired after brain injury, as well as the rehabilitation techniques used to treat them.

Cerebral visual disorders have far-reaching consequences for child development. These have profound adverse effects on children's education and success in school and also in later life, but, unfortunately, cerebral visual disorders often remain undiagnosed and untreated in the pediatric population. This book provides a state-of-the-art account of what is known about the development and disorders of visual perception in children. It covers the development and disorders of visual perception in children, their assessment, early intervention and management in an interdisciplinary context, both...

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.