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| Title |
New Perspectives in Amblyopia Therapy on Adults: A Critical Role for the Excitatory/Inhibitory Balance
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| Published in |
Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, January 2011
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| DOI | 10.3389/fncel.2011.00025 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Laura Baroncelli, Lamberto Maffei, Alessandro Sale |
| Abstract |
Amblyopia is the most common form of impairment of visual function affecting one eye, with a prevalence of about 1-5% of the total world population. This pathology is caused by early abnormal visual experience with a functional imbalance between the two eyes owing to anisometropia, strabismus, or congenital cataract, resulting in a dramatic loss of visual acuity in an apparently healthy eye and various other perceptual abnormalities, including deficits in contrast sensitivity and in stereopsis. It is currently accepted that, due to a lack of sufficient plasticity within the brain, amblyopia is untreatable in adulthood. However, recent results obtained both in clinical trials and in animal models have challenged this traditional view, unmasking a previously unsuspected potential for promoting recovery after the end of the critical period for visual cortex plasticity. These studies point toward the intracortical inhibitory transmission as a crucial brake for therapeutic rehabilitation and recovery from amblyopia in the adult brain. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Switzerland | 1 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 1 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 117 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Canada | 1 | <1% |
| Singapore | 1 | <1% |
| Mexico | 1 | <1% |
| Belgium | 1 | <1% |
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Poland | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 111 | 95% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 21 | 18% |
| Researcher | 19 | 16% |
| Student > Bachelor | 18 | 15% |
| Student > Master | 16 | 14% |
| Other | 6 | 5% |
| Other | 16 | 14% |
| Unknown | 21 | 18% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Neuroscience | 28 | 24% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 25 | 21% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 16 | 14% |
| Psychology | 12 | 10% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 6 | 5% |
| Other | 4 | 3% |
| Unknown | 26 | 22% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 14. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 06 January 2022.
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