🧠 Big welcome to Jackie Ferraro, who’s joining our team as a doctoral researcher! Jackie explores how kids with Cerebral Visual Impairment experience cluttered spaces like classrooms and shops. She’s got a cool mix of neuroscience, psychology, and creative arts in her background.🎉 #CVI #AcademicLife

Still buzzing 🐝 after a fantastic day at #OTAUS2025 My #PosterSkirt was a great conversation starter 👗 Such a warm welcome from OT Australia. Sharing behind-the-scenes with you here. Massive thanks to astroradioleah.bsky.social‬ as sewing teacher and to Imy (10) for making video “less cringe”

Looking forward to learn about OT stroke services. We were off to a great start with Ellen Druce on supporting patients with their independent practice, Tayla Grant on activity based rehab in in-patient settings, and Natasha Lannin and Sally Day on falls prevention #OTA2025

Getting ready for conferences and lab visits in Brisbane. If you're attending 🧠 #OHBM2025 👀 #IOC2025 🤯 #PacificRim2025 or you're just in Brisbane between 28th June and 5th July, get in touch! I would love to talk all things brains, eyes, and neuropsychology.

Started a slightly different project recently with Leah Morabito! It has everything I love: learning something new, creative problem solving, and a high nerdiness level 🤓 Result will be revealed in a few weeks.

🧠🎓 Funded PhD opportunity @durhampsych.bsky.social! Explore why cluttered spaces are hard for kids with brain-related visual impairment. 4 yrs funding by @fightforsight.bsky.social | Start Oct 2025 🔗 Details: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/... #PhD #ChildHealth #Neuropsychology #VisualImpairment

Are you a Dutch & English fluent researcher looking to work on an anti-trafficking policy project? Check out the Leverhulme Project, 'Interpreting the Governance of Human Trafficking Law' led by @nicktur.bsky.social #academicjobs #research #jobs #postdoc www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

We are taking a little break from posting educational videos to focus on our research. In the meantime, you can find all our previous videos in this playlist: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... 👩‍⚕️🎓🆓

This week's training video is about our own Oxford Visual Perception Screening test for vision issues after a stroke. Screen for object and face recognition difficulties, reading impairments, neglect, visuospatial issues and more in 15 min with this paper-and-pen test. youtu.be/uXQPMTw4l5Q

One week left! It's only 5 minutes and you get a bunch of FREE training resources at the end. We want to hear from @britishneuropsych.bsky.social @bios-orthoptics.bsky.social @aotinews.bsky.social @theotshow.bsky.social Completed + share with your networks and show us the magic of BlueSky.

We're back again with a new video on assessing visual perception difficulties. This time we focus on object agnosias. How to easily tell apart associative, apperceptive agnosia and optic aphasia. 🧑‍🎓🩺🧠 Find out: youtu.be/1W4F7Wp0qcA

One last call for our survey tinyurl.com/mpbebbmt ! We need ~50 #OT and #orthoptist by 31st March. Do you have 10 minutes? Can you share with 5 colleagues? @rowenapadamsey.bsky.social @stephanierossit.bsky.social @laurenhepworth.bsky.social @willchegwidden.bsky.social

We continue our video series with another one on assessment. This time, we explore tools for assessing perceptual organisation. What are your favourite instruments? youtu.be/41gXzWypYQw @durhampsych.bsky.social @britishneuropsych.bsky.social

Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @brain1878.bsky.social If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness academic.oup.com/brain/articl...

One way to comprehensively assess visual functions after a brain injury is with the Birmingham Object Recognition Battery. We briefly introduce the BORB in the our latest video. youtu.be/93pDcSTki20

A very exciting day! After 7 years with @neledemeyere.bsky.social, the first paper on the Oxford Visual Perception Screen got published! OxVPS is a new free and simple tool to screen stroke survivors for visual perception problems. OxVPS: oxvps.webspace.durham.ac.uk Paper: doi.org/10.1177/0269...

Next up in our series on assessment instruments for visual perception issues after a stroke: the OT-APST youtu.be/9B1492nkcsg Have you use it before? What are your experiences?

In our next videos on visual cognition difficulties after a brain injury, we'll cover ways to assess and screen for it. First up is the Rivermead Perceptual Assessment Battery youtu.be/A_95-A57RO4

Simultanagnosia???? It's difficulties with seeing more than one thing at the time and can happen after brain injury. 📽️ Learn more in our video youtu.be/IyzJbgbK1Iw Check out the whole series 📽️ Training for health professionals 🧑‍⚕️🏥

Optic aphasia! Is it agnosia 👁️? Is it aphasia 👄? It's a bit of both: difficulties with naming objects when shown visually. Check out our video to learn more: 🧑‍🎓https://youtu.be/UUFHO4SQhwY @durhampsych.bsky.social

Next up in our series of visual perception conditions: Associative Agnosia. 🏫🧑‍🎓 After a brain injury people can have difficulties with recognising object. 🧠🚲 Find out what's happening in their brain here youtu.be/AWqhjwF0Crw

A lovely 3rd year student of mine is looking for participants for her dissertation on victimisation and masking among autistic people: CW for questions on experiences of violence. Any reshares/time much appreciated. No funding attached. eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Apperceptive agnosia. That's a mouth full! It's basically issues with building a coherent picture out of all the colours and shapes that catch our eyes. 🧑‍🎓 Learn more here youtu.be/KlHUJ5yGsmk

Ever heard of Anton's syndrome? It's a rare but strange condition. 👨‍🎓 After an injury to the back of the brain, a person can become blind but they are totally unaware that they can't see. Their brain does not realise that they can no longer see. 🧑‍🦯 youtu.be/99uIRwnga3Q?...

Hallucinations is not always a sign of a mental health condition, it can happen after a brain injury too. Learn about Charles Bonnet syndrome in our video youtu.be/E3dH7XKa8n4 If you want to read more check out www.charlesbonnetsyndrome.uk @durhampsych.bsky.social

What's sensory vision and what can be challenging after a brain injury? Check out the video by Dr Alison Lane from @durhampsych.bsky.social youtu.be/qAKXycWERH0?...

What are the different stages of visual perception? Find out in our newest video in our 🧑‍🎓training series for health professionals 🏥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DKH...

We're starting 2025 with a new series of CPD videos 🎓 for health professionals. 🆓 Feel free to share and use as you like! 🏭 Made by @durhampsych.bsky.social First up, what is visual perception? Is it the same as vision? Is it visual inattention? youtu.be/gEVObD2yY3M

Congrats @drboothroyd.bsky.social

👩‍⚕️ OTs and Orthoptists 👨‍⚕️ New survey about current practice of visual perception difficulties after a brain injury: tinyurl.com/mpbebbmt. Results will inform new training and clinical tools. ⏳ 5-10 min 🏆 15 free posters about visual perception difficulties + rehab advice, see 🔽. Thank you!!

Reading difficulties after a stroke are common. One type is neglect dyslexia. People misread words because they are not aware of the first or last letters of the word. Read more: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20714712/ Infographic by Bella Belbali

I'm recruiting for my co-production workshops with health care workers involved in stroke and cognitive assessment at #UKSF24 If interested in helping out, please get in touch or grab me in the lobby today :) we hope to run these workshops in the new year.

Excellent first day at #uksf24. Dr Kate Cowen did an excellent job presenting our poster. Lots of interest. Sessions on health inequality and co-production already gave me some ideas on how we can improve our research.

Getting ready for #UKSF24 Dr Kate Cowen will be presenting her poster this afternoon in Tour 5.

After a stroke survivors can have difficulties with global attention. They can't see the wood for the trees. Infographic by Bella Belbali.

When losing part of their visual field stroke patients can sometimes still have unconscious vision on that side: they say they can't see anything, but still react to things in their blind field. This is blindsight. Read more: tinyurl.com/3j7raksw

Getting ready for my first ever keynote at the #OTShow

In associative agnosia, people can see a picture clearly, describe it in detail and even make an accurate drawing of it, but they don't know what it is a picture of. Read more: tinyurl.com/4jk337jw

Newest and oldest addition to my library: a monograph from 1917. Gaps in treatment of visual perception issues are still here 100 years later. Should we look back more often to great ideas of pioneers in our field that did not have the evidence base at the time and have therefore been forgotten?

Just returned from an inspiring few days with other NIHR Academy members talking about how to maximise impact of our research. Thanks to #nihramc24 organisers for an excellent programme and delegates from all careers levels and professional backgrounds for the inspiring conversations

Apperceptive agnosia is a hard one to understand: difficulties with integrating features into a complex whole. There are alternative definitions and closely related labels like visual form agnosia and integrative agnosia.

Where are all the occupational therapists on here? Any starter packs for neuro OT? Would love to follow you all!

Difficulties with recognising objects is not unusual after a stroke. It can help to think of the visual system as an hierarchical process to understand what exactly is challenging for a patient, but the debate is ongoing.

🌟 We're Hiring! 🌟 My team is looking for a Research Coordinator to support our portfolio of research activities. If you thrive organising complex projects and managing a range of activities, this is the role for you. 📢 More information: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49152/ 📄 Apply by: 29th November 2024

Today is about Alexia. There are many types. Pure alexia is a rare but devastating condition after stroke. People are unbale to read even though they can see the text clearly. More details: tinyurl.com/46ktxrhu or tinyurl.com/yth7arv3

Motion blindness or akinetopsia is a rare condition after brain injury. People have difficulties seeing motion. You can imagine it as seeing the world as a series of static pictures. Infographic by Bella Belbali.

After lurking here for a few months it seems a good time to become a bit more active! I’m a researcher at Durham University trying to improve life of people with visual perception difficulties after a brain injury. Mostly through developing and validating assessments. Interest in rehab too.

Did you know >20% of stroke survivors with a posterior stroke struggle with seeing colours? Their difficulties vary from just mixing up red and purple to full distortion of the colour space. More details in tinyurl.com/2dwwe2h5