Microperimetric biofeedback training (MBFT) is a visual rehabilitative strategy based on fixation stability improvement reinforcing or creating a new preferential fixation locus. The rationale consists in reeducating visual system to a new visual condition, promoting retina-brain transmission, and thus cortical plasticity. The use of MBFT found is major application in visual diseases involving central vision, but later it revealed promising functional outcomes even in myopia, inherited retinal degenerations and nystagmus. However, the use of microperimetric biofeedback is still limited due to poor knowledge of the procedure and inconsistent standards of practice, and thus an incipient skepticism on its efficacy. This review provides an overview of the rationale, current implications, procedures and future perspectives of microperimetric biofeedback training.

Microperimetric biofeedback training: fundamentals, strategies and perspectives / Vingolo, Enzo Maria; Napolitano, Giuseppe; Fragiotta, Serena. - In: FRONTIERS IN BIOSCIENCE. - ISSN 1945-0524. - 10:1(2018), pp. 48-64.

Microperimetric biofeedback training: fundamentals, strategies and perspectives

Vingolo, Enzo Maria
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NAPOLITANO, GIUSEPPE
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Fragiotta, Serena
Ultimo
2018

Abstract

Microperimetric biofeedback training (MBFT) is a visual rehabilitative strategy based on fixation stability improvement reinforcing or creating a new preferential fixation locus. The rationale consists in reeducating visual system to a new visual condition, promoting retina-brain transmission, and thus cortical plasticity. The use of MBFT found is major application in visual diseases involving central vision, but later it revealed promising functional outcomes even in myopia, inherited retinal degenerations and nystagmus. However, the use of microperimetric biofeedback is still limited due to poor knowledge of the procedure and inconsistent standards of practice, and thus an incipient skepticism on its efficacy. This review provides an overview of the rationale, current implications, procedures and future perspectives of microperimetric biofeedback training.
2018
microperimetry; biofeedback; fixation; bivariate contour ellipse area
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Microperimetric biofeedback training: fundamentals, strategies and perspectives / Vingolo, Enzo Maria; Napolitano, Giuseppe; Fragiotta, Serena. - In: FRONTIERS IN BIOSCIENCE. - ISSN 1945-0524. - 10:1(2018), pp. 48-64.
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