Stroke may cause visual deficits.

Most common symptoms are dark areas (a black spot in the middle of the patient’s eyesight), blurred vision, inability to moves eyes, agnosia (inability to recognize objects) or even hallucinations.

Why you have trouble with your vision?

Neurological  functions are  those  mediated  by your brain and nerves; the occipital cortex, situated at the rear of the brain, processes the information and allows you to see distance, shape, movement and color.

After a brain stroke, the brain impairment results  into  disruption  of  the information  processing  and transmission  through the  nervous system. This can  translate into vision impairments, such as: double vision, fluctuating vision, visual field defects, visual acuity problems, hemianopsia, eye  movement problems, strabismus…

Visual loss results from damage to the occipital lobe. Hemianopia (the loss of visual field on one side) is a result of stroke and is detected after 36% of right brain strokes and 25% of left brain strokes.

How to recover your vision after a stroke?

Although research estimates that 80%-85% of our perception, learning, cognition and activities are mediated through vision, vision impairments are often overlooked and under-treated. Therapy is addressed mainly to eye-motor deficits and specific sight disabilities (focusing, analyzing an entire picture). Exercises will have patients practice eye movement (cross eyes, look forward, etc.), track moving pictures or appearing text, observe pictures and try to note/remember details, recognize objects faster, etc.

One of the key neurological processes supporting post stroke rehabilitation within the brain is its capacity to reorganize healthy neurons network to form new information circuits. This process is called Neuroplasticity.

NeuroAiD™ has been shown to boost the production of new neurons in the brain (neurogenesis) and to favor the connections between neurons (formation of synapses). These processes create a fertile brain environment for vision recovery.

What can you expect from NeuroAiD™ stroke treatment?

Though there are no systematic data on NeuroAiD™ supporting the evidence of improvement on vision, a case study* published in  the European Neurology journal reports that the 5 patients who had vision disabilities, reported improvements with resolution of dipoplia and anopia.
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