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

• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2008
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 213 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)
• Disciplina: 618.92/0977
• Soggetto topico: Nystagmus; Pediatric ophthalmology; Infants - Diseases; Vision in infants
• Altri autori: LeighR. John DevereauxMichael W
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Advances in understanding mechanisms and treatment of infantile forms of nystagmus
• ISBN: 0-19-045101-7; 0-19-770546-4; 1-281-72401-7; 9786611724016; 0-19-971180-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910820744703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Oxford scholarship online.