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[A case report illustrating the effectiveness of reading performance assessments in the diagnosis and treatment of psychogenic visual disturbances].

Nippon Ganka Gakkai Zasshi

November 2005

Department of Ophthalmology, Kyorin University School of Medicine, Kyorin Eye Center, 6-20-2 Shinkawa, Mitaka, Tokyo 181-8611, Japan.

Purpose: An optimal strategy for treating psychogenic visual disturbances in adults has not been established. We report a patient with psychogenic visual disturbances who recovered his visual acuity and showed an improvement in his reading performance after undergoing training based on a reading performance assessment.

Case: A 37-year-old man who had been diagnosed as having myopic macular degeneration was referred to our clinic.

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