Ophthalmic disorder may affect visuo-attentional performance in childhood.

The aim of this study was to explore the visuo-attentional skills of children with an ophthalmic disorder. Twenty-four patients and 60 healthy controls between the ages 4 and 7 years, all right-handed with normal or corrected-to-normal close visual acuity, were divided into four age groups. Patients' diagnoses included refractive disorders (e.

Assessment of visuo-attentional abilities in young children with or without visual disorder: toward a systematic screening in the general population.

In young children, visual attention, analysis or memory is only rarely evaluated. Moreover, tools to test for such higher-order visual capacities in children are limited. In an attempt to develop and refine such tools, we selected nine tests to assess visuo-attentional abilities before formal reading education (grade 1).

[Susac syndrome: study of five cases].

Introduction: Susac syndrome is a rare microangiopathy, responsible for small cerebral, retinal and cochlear infarcts. The classic clinical triad includes multiple neurologic signs (from headaches to coma), retinal branch occlusions and sensorineural hearing loss.

Methods: We report a series of five patients with Susac syndrome followed in our department from 1997 to 2007.

From blindsight to sight: cognitive rehabilitation of visual field defects.

Purpose: Traditionally, post-chiasmatic lesions were believed to result in complete and permanent visual loss in the topographically related areas of the visual field. However, a number of studies with monkeys, and later with humans, have demonstrated spared implicit visual functioning, referred to as 'blindsight'. The present study assessed whether training this phenomenon would induce an objective restoration of conscious vision in the blind field of hemianopic patients.

[Bilateral papilledema: prospective study of fifty patients].

In this prospective study, we report fifty consecutive cases of bilateral papilledema without neurosurgical or obvious ophthalmologic etiology, referred to our institution between January 2005 and March 2007. Lumbar puncture with opening CSF pressure measurement distinguished two groups of patients: Group 1 (n=39) with and Group 2 (n=11) without intracranial hypertension. In Group 1, 9/39 patients presented secondary intracranial hypertension mainly due to cerebral venous thrombosis.