Consensus, awareness, and a CVI registry top priorities of the trans-NIH event
January 9, 2024
Cerebral Visual Impairment (CVI)
Clinical Research
NEI
The National Institutes of Health sponsored its first-ever workshop on cerebral/cortical visual impairment (CVI), an umbrella term for subnormal vision resulting from brain injury during development. Clinicians, researchers, and stakeholders discussed establishing CVI diagnostic criteria, boosting awareness of CVI, and creating a participant data registry to serve as a platform for data collection and to facilitate research on the brain-based visual disorder.
CVI’s varying symptoms have challenged efforts to define the condition, form diagnostic criteria, and develop treatment. CVI affects vision processing in the brain in ways that cannot be completely explained by problems occurring in the eyes. CVI can manifest as higher-order visual deficits, such as the inability [...]