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Advances in Understanding Mechanisms and Treatment of Infantile Forms of Nystagmus.
Title:
Advances in Understanding Mechanisms and Treatment of Infantile Forms of Nystagmus.
Author:
Leigh, R. John.
ISBN:
9780199711802
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (237 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- 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 Stability -- 8. 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.
Abstract:
This volume covers: ·Basic concepts - psychophysics, contributions of extraocular proprioception, and corollary discharge ·New models- for strabismus, amblyopia, and nystagmus, optical methods for managing nystagmus ·New therapies for infantile nystagmus- drugs and surgical ·General aspects of normal and abnormal gaze control, including new treatment measures.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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