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On Blindness and Blind Spots [PDF]
The Annals of Family Medicine, 2018 This story is a reflection on the evolving relationship of a family physician with a patient suffering from a severe conversion disorder, expressed inter alia through "blindness." The narrative follows our journey as I attempt to unravel the meaning of the symptoms as a metaphoric expression of her agony. Eventually, I conclude that clinicians at times
Ruth, Kannai, Aya, Alon
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COVID-19 Pandemic: Experiences of People with Visual Impairment
Investigación y Educación en Enfermería, 2021 Objective. To understand changes in daily life emerging from the COVID-19 Pandemic in people with visual impairment from four cities of Colombia. Methods. Exploratory-type, descriptive qualitative study.
María del Pilar Oviedo-Cáceres +3 more
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Traumatic brain injury and sight loss in military and veteran populations– a review
Military Medical Research, 2021 War and combat exposure pose great risks to the vision system. More recently, vision related deficiencies and impairments have become common with the increased use of powerful explosive devices and the subsequent rise in incidence of traumatic brain ...
Syeda F. Hussain +6 more
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'The blind leading the blind' - A reflection on coaching blind football [PDF]
European Journal of Adapted Physical Activity, 2021 Abstract: There are well-established links between successful athlete development, retention and high-quality coaching. Such links between athletes and coaches are also pertinent in disability sports. However, there is limited knowledge around coaching and coaches’ needs and barriers in disability sport.
David Mycock, Győző Molnár
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Military Medical Research, 2021 The military population face a unique set of risk factors that may increase the risk of being diagnosed with dementia. Traumatic brain injury (TBI) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have a higher prevalence in this group in comparison to the ...
Zara Raza +6 more
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Revista Facultad de Ingeniería Universidad de Antioquia, 2021 SATReLO is a tool for the creation of customized applications that support language therapy for children with hearing disabilities. These applications consist of video games that replicate therapeutic activities.
Juan Carlos Martínez Arias +7 more
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Frontiers in Public Health, 2023 Medical professionals often find it challenging to assess children having both complex disabilities and visual impairment, which may lead to excluding such children from educational programs and limiting their full participation in family and community ...
Lisa Jacobs +6 more
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Repetition blindness is orientation blind [PDF]
Memory & Cognition, 2007 In identifying rapid sequences of three letters, subjects were worse at identifying the first and third letters when they were the same than when they were different, indicating repetition blindness (RB). This effect occurred regardless of the angular orientations of the letters, but was more pronounced when the orientations of the repeated letters ...
Michael C, Corballis, Cole, Armstrong
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BMC Ophthalmology, 2017 Background We needed to validate and calibrate our portable acuity screening tools so amblyopia could be detected quickly and effectively at school entry.
Maya Tsao Wu +6 more
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Nanomanufacturing, 2023 Chitin (usually derived from aq. arthropods like shrimp Pandalus borealis) acts as a potent metal sorbent in both environmental monitoring and retention applications such as wastewater purification or nuclear fuel reprocessing.
Stefan Fränzle, Felix Blind
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