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“Getting back to the question of anti-saccades, that is one way to actually legitimately check out how is that frontal lobe working. And I think as we talked about how can we then drive that frontal lobe in order to be able to act more appropriately. Well, one way to check it would be the Stroop test, you could use looking at saccadic latencies, you could look at arm swing or lack thereof. You can look at anti-saccades. What do you do then to see if you can change that real estate? I would do then a contralateral cerebellum type of activity. So if I’m looking at a left frontal lobe decrease, then I’m going to do something to get that right cerebellum to see if I can get it to communicate better with that left frontal lobe.”
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DeAnn Fitzgerald, OD
DeAnn Fitzgerald, O.D. is Vice President of the Neuro-Optometric Rehabilitation Association (NORA), an inter-disciplinary group of professionals dedicated to providing patients who have physical or cognitive disabilities as a result of an acquired brain injury with a complete ocular health evaluation and optimum visual rehabilitation education and services to improve their quality of life. Dr. Fitzgerald has been providing eye care to eastern Iowa since graduating from Pacific University School of Optometry in 1984. She runs a busy primary care clinic where she diagnoses and treats ocular disease and evaluates patients with brain injury. She recently launched her sports vision and concussion clinic, Active Evolution Studio. Dr. Fitzgerald has a special interest in sports vision performance and concussion.
