We expect to find adaptive auditory and visual processing (optimised residual and risen compensatory perceptual performance) as a consequence of homonymous hemianopia. Additionally, we hypothesise these changes to be reflected in sustained…
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Aandoening
Homonymous hemianopia, post chiasmic cardiovascular accident
Homonieme hemianopsia, post-chiasmatische beroerte
Ondersteuning
UMCG, Department of Ophthalmology
HPC BB61, Postbus 30.001 9700 RB Groningen
Onderzoeksproduct en/of interventie
Uitkomstmaten
Primaire uitkomstmaten
scores on visual and auditory functional tests, cortical activation and functional connectivity during visual and auditory processing, cortical and retinal nerve thickness and white matter tracts of all individual participants.
Achtergrond van het onderzoek
Even though there is increasing interest in the reorganisation of the brain after vision loss, systemic investigation of neuroplasticity in patients with homonymous hemianopia (HH), the complete loss of one side of the visual field, is still very rare. Better understanding of this unchartered field has tremendous potential for the development or neuroscientifically-motivated rehabilitation techniques. For that reason and with this project, I want to get insight into whether and how both the visual and the auditory system reorganise after acquiring HH. More specifically, I want to investigate adaptive auditory and visual processing (optimised residual and risen compensatory perceptual performance) of patients with HH and I expect this to be reflected in cortical reorganisation at both a structural and a functional level. For this purpose psychophysical tests will be performed and cortical plasticity will be assed by (f)MRI using a combination of a novel techniques (i.e. population receptive field modelling, connective field mapping and cortical thickness comparisons). In this way, the impact of homonymous visual field defects on perceptual processing can be investigated and, subsequently, the degree of optimised residual and compensatory perceptual behaviour can be correlated with structural and functional cortical plasticity. This provides us with new quantitative knowledge about changes in cortical structure, visual and auditory networks and maps in HH close to the level of neuronal populations – the level that is most critical for understanding the relationship between neural computations, behaviour and perception, which could eventually lead to systematic training tools that will improve the reorganisation.
Doel van het onderzoek
We expect to find adaptive auditory and visual processing (optimised residual and risen compensatory perceptual performance) as a consequence of homonymous hemianopia. Additionally, we hypothesise these changes to be reflected in sustained functional and structural changes on the cortical level. More specifically, we expect a) remapped visual field representations in the visual cortex, b) structural changes in the visual system (i.e. cortical thickness and white matter tracts), c) changes in cortical representations of auditory space, and d) changes in functional connectivity maps.
Onderzoeksopzet
not applicable, no longitudinal design
Onderzoeksproduct en/of interventie
auditory and visual functioning tests
(f)MRI measurements
Publiek
H.N. Halbertsma
Antonius Deusinglaan 2
Groningen 9713 AW
The Netherlands
+31 (0)50 363 4431
h.n.halbertsma@umcg.nl
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H.N. Halbertsma
Antonius Deusinglaan 2
Groningen 9713 AW
The Netherlands
+31 (0)50 363 4431
h.n.halbertsma@umcg.nl
Belangrijkste voorwaarden om deel te mogen nemen (Inclusiecriteria)
Participants with hemianopia:
- have signed written consent
- age older than 18
- homonymous hemianopia due to post chiasmic CVA stable ophthalmologic conditions
Controls:
- have signed written consent age older than 18
- subjectively healthy
Belangrijkste redenen om niet deel te kunnen nemen (Exclusiecriteria)
Participants with hemianopia:
- visual neglect
- visual field defect due to condition other than post chiasmic CVA clinical eye conditions
- hearing impairments
- macular sparing
Controls:
- visual impairments
- auditory impairments
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