Advances in understanding mechanisms and treatment of infantile forms of nystagmus / edited by R. John Leigh, Michael W. Devereaux.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Leigh, R. John, editor.

Devereaux, Michael W., eeditor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nystagmus--Congresses.

Nystagmus.

Pediatric ophthalmology--Congresses.

Pediatric ophthalmology.

Infants--Diseases--Congresses.

Infants.

Vision in infants--Congresses.

Vision in infants.

Nystagmus, Congenital--Congresses.

Eye Movements--physiology--Congresses.

Nystagmus, Congenital--therapy--Congresses.

Strabismus--Congresses.

Medical Subjects:

Nystagmus, Congenital--Congresses.

Eye Movements--physiology--Congresses.

Nystagmus, Congenital--therapy--Congresses.

Strabismus--Congresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 213 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume brings together work from leading researchers in the fields of developmental disorders of binocular vision, strabismus, and both infantile and acquired forms of nystagmus.

Contents:

Contents; Contributors; Part I: Basic Concepts of Stable Vision and Gaze; 1. Afferent and Efferent Contributions to Knowledge of Eye Position; 2. Perceptual Influences of the Extraretinal Signals for Normal Eye Movements and Infantile Nystagmus; 3. Perception with Unstable Fixation; 4. Internal and External Influences on Foveation and Perception in Infantile Nystagmus Syndrome; 5. Perceptual Fading during Voluntary and Involuntary Eye Movements; Part II: New Models and Techniques for Studying Gaze Stability; 6. Alternating Saccades in a Primate Model of Strabismus

7. Effects of Cerebellar Lesions in Monkeys on Gaze Stability8. Development of Visual Stabilization Devices with Applications for Acquired and Infantile Nystagmus; 9. Pupil Abnormalities of the Near Response in Children with Visual Display Terminal Syndrome; Part III: New Therapies for Congenital Nystagmus; 10. Genetics and Pharmacological Treatment of Nystagmus: A Review of the Literature and Recent Findings; 11. New Treatments for Infantile and Other Forms of Nystagmus

12. Clinical and Electrophysiological Effects of Extraocular Muscle Surgery on Fifty-three Patients with Infantile Periodic Alternating Nystagmus; 13. Eye Muscle Surgery for Acquired Forms of Nystagmus; 14. The Complement Hypothesis to Explain Preferential Involvement of Extraocular Muscle in Myasthenia Gravis; Part IV: General Aspects of Normal and Abnormal Gaze Control; 15. Studies of the Ability to Hold the Eye in Eccentric Gaze: Measurements in Normal Subjects with the Head Erect; 16. Effect of Eye Exercise on Clinical Outcome of Noncompressive Ocular Motor Nerve Palsy

17. Expanding the Original Behavioral Infantile Nystagmus Syndrome Model to Jerk Waveforms and Gaze-angle Variations; 18. Extension of the eXpanded Nystagmus Acuity Function to Vertical and Multiplanar Data; 19. Inertial and Noninertial Contributions to the Perception of Translation and Path; 20. The Effect of the Duncker Visual Illusion on Occluded Smooth-arm Tracking; 21. Posterior Internuclear Ophthalmoplegia of Lutz Revisited: Report of a Case Associated with a Midbrain Lesion; 22. Divergence Insufficiency Associated with Hereditary Spinocerebellar Ataxia

23. Neuromuscular Junction Dysfunction in Miller Fisher Syndrome; 24. Involuntary Version-Vergence Nystagmus Induced by Ground-Plane Optic Flow: Analysis of Dynamic Characteristics of Nystagmus Quick Phases; 25. The Neuro-ophthalmologic Complications of Chiropractic Manipulation; 26. Vergence Hysteresis in Infantile Nystagmus; 27. Using Wavelet Analysis to Evaluate Effects of Eye and Head Movements on Ocular Oscillations; 28. Multifocal Electroretinographic Study of Patients with Oculocutaneous Albinism and Infantile Nystagmus Syndrome; Index; Author Index; Subject Index

Notes:

Formerly CIP.

Result of a meeting held on May 3-4, 2007 at the Louis Stokes Cleveland Dept. of Veterans Affairs Medical Center.

Previously issued in print: 2008.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-045101-7

0-19-770546-4

1-281-72401-7

9786611724016

0-19-971180-1

OCLC:

476239619