Synopsis
If you are threatened by or already have vision loss because of nervous system tissue damage in your retina, optic nerve, or brain, this book will help you understand and improve your condition. Optical problems like nearsightedness or farsightedness can be fixed with eyeglasses, but damage to the visual parts of the nervous system has long been considered untreatable. This book takes you on a scientific adventure to discover brain plasticity and to learn about old and new ways to improve your vision, both medically and psychologically. Author Bernhard Sabel takes a unique look at the person you are “behind the eye,” with many practical tips to help you strengthen the vision you still have and cope with your vision loss. Restoring Your Vision has a double meaning: changing how you think and feel about vision loss and restoring some of your residual vision. Uncover this “eye-opening” experience and start your search for hidden potentials behind the dark curtain of vision loss!
About the Author
Bernhard Sabel is the world’s leading authority on and practitioner of vision restoration techniques. He is a professor on the Medical Faculty of the University of Magdeburg and director of its Institute of Medical Psychology in Magdeburg, Germany. Since 1992, Dr. Sabel has been using noninvasive vision restoration techniques to improve the eyesight of victims of stroke, brain trauma, optic nerve damage, and eye diseases such as glaucoma and diabetic retinopathy. The techniques include rehabilitation training and noninvasive electric brain stimulation using a brain pacemaker. In 2000, he founded NovaVision AG, in Magdeburg, a brain training company. In 2014, he founded the Sabel Vision Restoration Center (SAVIR), an international center specializing in helping patients with retina, optic nerve, or brain damage improve their vision with a holistic treatment approach. Dr. Sabel is editor-in-chief of a leading international journal of brain repair and plasticity, Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience (IOS Press, The Netherlands). He has coauthored eight neuropsychology books and published more than two hundred papers on vision restoration and related topics. His books include Brain Plasticity (Lippincott/Raven Press), Communication, Technology and Aging (Springer Publ.), and Pharmacological Approaches to the Treatment of Brain and Spinal Cord Injury (Plenum Press). He has received many national and international awards for his work on vision restoration techniques. Dr. Sabel earned his PhD from Clark University, in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a researcher at the Institute of Medical Psychology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, in Munich, Germany. He was also a visiting research fellow at Princeton University’s Department of Psychology and a visiting neuroscientist at Harvard Medical School’s Massachusetts General Hospital. He held an appointment as an international visiting professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in Beijing, and has served as adjunct professor at China’s largest eye center, the Beijing Tongren Hospital at Capital Medical University in Beijing, China. Dr. Sabel is an executive committee member of the International Society for Low Vision Research and Rehabilitation, in Boston, Massachusetts, and a member of the governing board of the International Brain Injury Association.
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