Sensory Compensation in Children Following Vision Loss after Trauma and Disease
Journal Title: Journal of Clinical Research and Ophthalmology - Year 2015, Vol 2, Issue 4
Abstract
Sensory compensation or sensory substitution occurs when a sense organ, such as the eye, is lost due to trauma or disease. Individuals often experience phantom limb sensation or pain but research increasingly points towards some individuals developing a heightened level of functioning in their remaining senses, particularly in their remaining intact eye. Losing an eye at an early age can often result in “super functioning” in the remaining eye providing that no similar trauma or disease results. Cases include young children who have undergone enucleation because of diagnosed unilateral retinoblastoma and whose remaining eye is free from disease.
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Chinnery Holly L, Thompson Simon BN
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