Study Status: Withdrawn
Recruit Status: Withdrawn
Study Type: Interventional
Official Title: tDCS Associated to Blindsight Rehabilitation for the Treatment of Homonymous Hemianopsia
Brief Summary:
Homonymous hemianopia is one of the most common symptoms following a neurologic damage and has many negative effects on functional abilities and daily activities.
There are two main kind of restorative rehabilitation of hemianopia: "border training", which involves exercising vision at the edge of the damaged visual field, and "blindsight training", which is based on exercising the unconscious perceptual functions in the mild of the blind hemifield.
In literature only border training effects were shown to be facilitated by transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS).
The investigators treat two patients with blindsight rehabilitation associated to tDCS over parieto-occipital cortex. The two patients undergo a cycle of blindsight treatment associated to tDCS and a cycle of blindsight training alone in inverted order.
Aim of the study is to investigate if the anodic stimulation of perilesional areas enhance the improvement induced by blindsight rehabilitation treatment.