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Show OUP UNCORRECTED PROOF – REVISES, 09/24/12, NEWGEN acknowledgments It is better to have nine of your ideas be completely disproved, and the tenth one spark off a revolution, than to have all ten be correct but unimportant discoveries that satisfy the skeptics. —Francis Crick (1916–2004) A LTHOUGH AUTHOR ED by two, this work could not have been accomplished without continuous support from colleagues and administrative personnel at multiple medical centers. FOR R. W. HERTLE: The Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research, The National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD; The UPMC Eye Center, Pittsburgh, PA; Akron Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Akron, OH; Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH. Granting agencies were as follows: The National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health; The Veterans Administration Merit Review; and Fight for Sight. Anne Dellinger at Oxford University Press was tremendously helpful in advocating for, and assisting with, the huge task of publishing this work. Most important, this work could never have been completed without those patients and their families who traveled from all parts of the world to many places in the United States to visit the author’s professional offices. The following people I could not do, or have done, without Dongsheng Yang, Robert Daroff, R. J. Leigh, Larry A. Abel, David Schaffer, Arthur Jampolsky, Marshal M. Parks, Jonathan Jacobs, Roy W. Beck, Raymond Kraker, Edmond F. Fitzgibbon, Susan B. Mellow, Mitra Maybodi, Robert Williams, David B. Granet, Deanna Stevens, William Anninger, Vanessa M. Hill, Joel S. Schuman, Hiroshi Ishikawa, Leah Reznick, Mingshia Zhu, Albert Maguire, Jean Bennett, Kenneth Adams, Matt hew Kaufman, Eric Hald, Tara Cronin, Ellen Mitchell, Jai Jeng, Kristen Carey, Robert Burnstine, Shawn Lyden, Stephanie Knox, and Cathy Howe. Lastly, if were not for the love and support of my family, especially my wife, Gloriann, and children, Jessika and Jamie, my work on this project would never had been completed. • xiii 00_Hertle_Prelims.indd xiii 9/24/2012 1:30:52 PM OUP UNCORRECTED PROOF – REVISES, 09/24/12, NEWGEN FOR L. F. DELL’OSSO: The Daroff-Dell’Osso Ocular Motility Laboratory (formerly The Ocular Motor Neurophysiology Laboratory), Case Western Reserve University, and Louis Stokes Cleveland Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Cleveland, OH (formerly, University of Miami and Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Miami, FL). Funding was from the following: The National Science Foundation (1972); Seeing Eye Foundation (1972–73); The National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health (1972; 1978–79); and The Department of Veterans Affairs Merit Review (1973–2011). Th is work could never have been completed without the continuous stream of patients referred over the past 40 years by dozens of physicians (both in private practice and academia), and the many patients and families who traveled from all parts of the world to visit the author’s laboratory for eyemovement recordings, diagnoses, and therapeutic recommendations to their referring physicians. I am indebted to my many colleagues and students for their valuable contributions (both indirect, through their research and our longterm collaborations, and direct, during the preparation of this book). I have had the privilege and pleasure of collaborating with many excellent scholars; they are the silent authors, without whose contributions and collaborations this monograph would not have been possible. The following people played key roles in my research xiv and many, in my personal life: Robert B. Daroff (who facilitated my move to the Department of Neurology at a critical point early in my career and cemented our professional, symbiotic partnership that lasts to this day); Larry Stark (who insisted we write a paper based on my thesis and visit to his lab); Thorne Shipley, John T. Flynn, J. Lawton Smith, and Joel S. Glaser (the Bascom Palmer superstars who also were my teachers); Larry A. Abel (my fi rst and most prominent postdoc); Jonathan B. Jacobs (grad student, postdoc, colleague, and Mac guru responsible for all our soft ware); Robert M. Steinman; Dieter Schmidt; Sebastiano Traccis; Carl Ellenberger; R. J. Leigh; Han Collewijn; Akio Tabuchi; Barbara Weissman; Josephine Shallo-Hoff mann; Nirav Sheth; Lea Averbuch-Heller; Bernd Remler; Robert Williams; Robert Burnstine; Robert L. Tomsak; Jean Bennett; Greg Acland; Alessandro Serra; and Zhong I. Wang (my fi nal and most prolific graduate student). I am especially indebted to Ann Rutledge, my “secret weapon” who, for the past 16 years, insulated me from the ever-increasing administrative intrusions and overzealous committees imposing inane regulations on principal investigators that today stifle innovative research. Such intrusions destroy the uninterrupted “think time” required for a researcher to immerse himself in the work; because of my temperament and inability to “go along” with irrationality, Ann was the single most important factor allowing me to maintain the focus I needed. • ACK NOW LEDGM ENTS 00_Hertle_Prelims.indd xiv 9/24/2012 1:30:52 PM |
