Publications by authors named "L T Starling"
Damage to the primary visual cortex (V1) results in visual field deficits on the contralateral side of the world corresponding to the damaged region. Patients with such loss nonetheless show varying residual vision within this apparently blind region, with the neural mechanisms underlying this ability obscured by small study populations. We identified lesions on structural scans from 39 patients (12 female) with hemianopia and occipital lobe damage.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: The purpose of this study was to investigate head kinematic variables in elite men's and women's rugby union and their ability to predict player removal for an off-field (HIA1) head injury assessment.
Methods: Instrumented mouthguard (iMG) data were collected for 250 men and 132 women from 1865 and 807 player-matches, respectively, and synchronised to video-coded match footage. Head peak resultant linear acceleration (PLA), peak resultant angular acceleration (PAA) and peak change in angular velocity (dPAV) were extracted from each head acceleration event (HAE).
Damage to the primary visual cortex causes homonymous visual impairments that appear to benefit from visual discrimination training. However, whether improvements persist without continued training remains to be determined and was the focus of the present study. After a baseline assessment visit, 20 participants trained twice daily in their blind-field for a minimum of six months (median=155 sessions), using a motion discrimination and integration task.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: To determine the rates, severity and burden of knee injuries in professional male rugby union from the English Premiership.
Methods: Injury and exposure data were captured over 20 seasons using a prospective cohort design. Knee injury incidence, days' absence and burden were recorded for each injury type and by pitch surface type for match and training.
Article Synopsis
- Damage to the primary visual cortex leads to loss of vision in the opposite visual field, often resulting in homonymous visual field deficits.
- Visual training in areas of the blind field has shown potential to partially restore vision, but its effectiveness varies among individuals, possibly due to differences in residual neural circuitry after brain injuries.
- A study with 18 stroke survivors involved six months of motion discrimination training, where changes in white matter pathways were measured to determine if they related to improvements in visual function, particularly through the connection between the dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus and visual processing areas.