Chapter 6: Afferent Visual System-Clinical Examination Procedures

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Identifier NIC_Ch_6
Title Chapter 6: Afferent Visual System-Clinical Examination Procedures
Creator Richard W. Hertle MD, FACS, FAAO, FAAP; Louis F. Dell'Osso, PhD
Affiliation (RWH) Director of the Children's Vision Center, Chief of; Pediatric Ophthalmology; Children's Hospital Medical Center, Akron, Ohio; (LFD) Professor Emeritus, Department of Neurology, Case Western Reserve University, Director Emeritus of the Daroff-Dell'Osso Ocular Motility Laboratory
Subject Nystagmus; Diagnosis; Pediatrics; Management
Description Nystagmus in infancy and childhood outlines the understanding, evaluation, and treatments of nystagmus in infancy and childhood. Aligning this condition with advanced concepts of developmental brain-eye diseases and summarizing novel treatment paradigms, the authors provide an authoritative resource for both clinicians and scientists in the care of infants and children with nystagmus. The chapters comprised here offer valuable coverage in all relevant areas related to nystagmus: algorithms for examination; descriptions of diagnostic techniques; medical, surgical, and alternative treatments of the visual system in infants and children; methodologies for investigation, including analysis software, models of the ocular motor system, and current hypotheses on the pathophysiology of ocular motor oscillations. Unlike earlier works on this topic, emphasis is placed on the motor mechanisms that cause the various types of nystagmus rather than the diagnosis or treatment of the afferent visual deficits that may accompany them. The study of each type of nystagmus using accurate eye-movement recordings serves as the foundation for differential diagnosis and treatment options. Each chapter summarizes the results of ocular motor research in a narrative manner, identifying the important ideas and observations that point to underlying neurophysiological mechanisms. Based on insights from the authors' combined 75 years of clinical experience, Nystagmus in Infancy and Childhood is a valuable clinical reference for ophthalmologists, neurologists, and other specialists in the treatment of this condition.
Date 2012-09
Language eng
Format application/pdf
Type Text
Relation is Part of Nystagmus in infancy and childhood : current concepts in mechanisms, diagnoses, and management
Collection Neuro-Ophthalmology Virtual Education Library: Louis F. Dell'Osso Collection: https://novel.utah.edu/DellOsso/
Publisher Oxford University Press, Oxford
Holding Institution Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, University of Utah
Rights Management Copyright 2020. For further information regarding the rights to this collection, please visit: https://NOVEL.utah.edu/about/copyright
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Setname ehsl_novel_dellosso
ID 1612628
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6799vz3
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