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SOURCES: 2009 WebMD Medical Reference from Medstar Television. Susan Primo, OD, MPH, Vision Researcher, Emory Eye Center, Atlanta. Eric Schumacher, PhD, Neuroscientist, Georgia Tech, Atlanta.

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Narrator:

To see well, John Jenkins has learned to turn his head sideways to get a better view.

John Jenkins, Study Participant:

My a vision of course you know, in the middle is gone, I can't even see you, but if I look a little bit off to the side I've got the bulk of you.

Narrator:

John has age related macular degeneration. It's the leading cause of blindness in seniors, with more than 10-million people in the U-S coping with reduced vision because of it.

Susan Primo, OD, MPH, Vision Researcher, Emory Eye Center:

They tend to not fixate straight ahead because they've lost the central part of their vision or their retina.

Eric Schumacher, PhD, Neuroscientist, Georgia Tech:

They adopt a particular region in their periphery… we call it the preferred retina location.

Narrator:

Now, these researchers are focusing on the part of the retina that's working… Hoping scans will help them understand how the brain's own plasticity helps patient's train undamaged parts of the brain to see.

Eric Schumacher, PhD, Neuroscientist, Georgia Tech:

If we can understand how the brain reorganizes, then maybe we can develop training technologies, rehabilitation therapies that can improve that reorganization.

Narrator:

Since they've already established that brain activity changes in these patients… They're trying to figure out if biofeedback and other techniques can train the brain to adapt faster.

Susan Primo, OD, MPH, Vision Researcher, Emory Eye Center:

We want to see if we could actually speed up that process if you will, by looking at some training and some other mechanisms to sort of get the brain moving, so to speak, and to be able to get the folks to use their vision much more efficiently, faster.

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John's happy to help in the study, hoping that what they find in him will help patients in the future. For WebMD, I'm Damon Meharg.

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