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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910782103703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford ; ; New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2008
• ISBN: 0-19-770546-4; 1-281-72401-7; 9786611724016; 0-19-971180-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 213 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)
• Altri autori (Persone): LeighR. John; DevereauxMichael W
• Disciplina: 618.92/0977
• Soggetti: Nystagmus; Pediatric ophthalmology; Infants - Diseases; Vision in infants
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Result of a meeting held on May 3-4, 2007 at the Louis Stokes Cleveland Dept. of Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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. It contains four sections. The first section, Basic Concepts of Stable Vision and Gaze, deals with psychophysical aspects of infantile forms of nystagmus and the relative contributions of extraocular proprioception and efference (corollary discharge). It also contains an accessible review of current notions of spatial and temporal visual functions and spatial constancy in infantile nystagmus syndrome and latent n