VA Office of Research and Development
This study will help develop new methods of rehabilitating Veterans with vision loss due to Age-related macular degeneration.
The purpose of this research study is to develop new and improved methods of helping vision-impaired Veterans see better by using hands as "seeing eyes". This study will focus on Veterans with a common form of eye disease called age-related macular degeneration that affects older individuals.
Inclusion Criteria: * The subject is a Veteran * The subject has best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) of 20/40 or worse in each eye, as determined by the standard Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center (CNVAMC) optometric tests * The subject has visual field deficit of 10O in either eye as determined by the Octopus 900 perimetry (Haag-Streit Diagnostics, Haag-Streit USA, Mason, OH) administered by CNVAMC. (When the deficit/s are binocular, they do not necessarily have to be in binocularly corresponding positions) * The subject has received a formal clinical diagnosis of age-related macular degenera…
Study-specific rehabilitation procedures will systematically manipulated the spatial or temporal synchrony (or coordination) of visual vs. haptic inputs that the subjects receive.
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