The Alfredo A. Sadun Neuro-Ophthalmology Collection: A Professor of Ophthalmology and Neurological Surgery at the USC Keck School of Medicine, Dr. Sadun with a team of researchers at the Doheny Eye Institute pioneered research in optic nerve dysfunction in patients with Alzheimer's disease. Contains his "100 best lectures." Alfredo A. Sadun, MD, PhD, Flora L. Thornton Chair, Professor Ophthalmology & Neurological Surgery, Doheny Eye Institute, Keck School of Medicine at USC.
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Apoptosis of Retinal Ganglion Cells | Presented at a conference on neuroprotection at Sedona, Arizona, 2002; includes several microscopic images demonstrating cell death. Anatomy: Optic nerve; Retina; Retinal ganglion cells; Cytokines. Disease/Diagnosis: Glaucoma. | Text |
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Induction of Apoptosis by Mitochondrial Impairment in LHON and Related Diseases | Slide presentation includes six pairs of microscopic slides showing LHON and control examples of optic nerve. Anatomy: Optic nerve. Disease/Diagnosis: Optic Atrophy, Hereditary, Leber. | Text |
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Circadian Rhythms: How Much Retina Do We Need for a Good Night's Sleep? | Discusses importance of the health of the retinohypothalamic tract in the maintenance of circadian rhythm. Anatomy: Retina; Hypothalamus; Retinal ganglion cells; Pineal gland. Disease/Diagnosis: Retinal diseases; Sleep disorders, Circadian rhythm. | Text |
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Toxic Optic Neuropathies: How Much Evidence Should it Take to Convict? | A critique of claims that the drug Amiodarone causes optic neuropathies. Presenting Symptom: Scotoma; Dyschromatopsia. Anatomy: Optic nerve. Disease/Diagnosis: Toxic optic neuropathy. | Text |
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Beyond the Margulis Hypothesis: The Time Bomb Within Us | Presented at Harvard, 2005; includes several images of optic disc with LHON. Anatomy: Optic nerve; Optic disk; Retinal ganglion cells; Reactive oxygen species. Disease/Diagnosis: Optic Atrophy, Hereditary, Leber. Presenting Symptom: Dyschromatopsia; Scotoma. | Text |
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How Strong is the Case for an Association Between PDE5 Inhibitors and NAION? | Anatomy: Optic nerve. Disease/Diagnosis: Optic Neuropathy, Ischemic; Toxic optic neuropathy. Presenting Symptom: Ischemia; Scotoma; Dyschromatopsia. | Text |
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Beyond the Margulis Hypothesis: The Time Bomb Within Us | Presented at 36th Annual Doheny Days, 2005. Anatomy: Optic nerve; Retina; Retinal ganglion cells; Reactive oxygen species. Disease/Diagnosis: Optic Atrophy, Hereditary, Leber. | Text |
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Leber's Hereditary Optic Neuropathy (LHON): New Rules of Engagement | Slide presentation with several images of optic nerve and optic disk with LHON. Anatomy: Optic nerve; Optic disk; Retinal ganglion cells; Reactive oxygen species. Disease/Diagnosis: Optic Atrophy, Hereditary, Leber. Presenting Symptom: Blindness. | Text |
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Mitochondria and the RGC | Discussion of various forms of mitrochondrial optic neuropathies and how to distinguish from toxic optic neuropathies, with examples from Cuba and Brazil. Presenting Symptom: Scotoma; Telangiectasis; Apoptosis; Dyschromatopsia. Anatomy: Optic nerve; Optic disc; Retinal ganglion cells; Reactive oxyge... | Text |
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Mitochondrial Optic Neuropathy: Mitochondria as Gatekeepers for Apoptosis | Presentation at Harvard in 2006, focussing on Leber's Heriditary Optic Neuropathy; includes several images of optic nerve and optic disk with LHON. Anatomy: Optic nerve; Optic disk; Retinal ganglion cells. Disease/Diagnosis: Optic nerve diseases; Optic Atrophy, Hereditary, Leber. Presenting Symptom:... | Text |
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Why You Should Prescribe Goggles to a Box Jellyfish | A discussion of the box jellyfish eye and visual system. Anatomy: Retina; Lens, Crystalline. | Text |
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Leber's Hereditary Optic Neuropathy (LHON) in Brazil: Opportunities | Report of an international field investigation to rural Brazil to study a cluster of LHON, including its genetic roots. Presented at Allergan, 2006. Includes several images of optic nerve and optic disk with LHON. Anatomy: Optic nerve; Myelin sheath; Optic Disk. Disease/Diagnosis: Optic Atrophy, H... | Text |
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Mitochondrial Optic Neuropathy: Mitochondria as Gatekeepers for Apoptosis | Anatomy: Optic nerve; Retina; Retinal ganglion cells; Reactive oxygen species. Disease/Diagnosis: Optic Atrophy, Hereditary, Leber; Toxic optic neuropathy. Presenting Symptom: Scotoma; Dyschromatopsia. | Text |
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Optic Nerve Tumors: Diagnosis and Therapy | Powerppoint lecture covers a patient case, differential diagnosis, and optic nerve anatomy. Also includes examination information, fundus images and visual field defects. Presenting Symptom: Proptosis; Hemianopsia; Scotoma. Anatomy: Optic nerve; Structure of pituitary fossa; Optic nerve sheath. Dise... | Text |
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Prognosis for Vision in Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension (IIH) | Treatment options for Pseudotumor cerebri and Papilledema; includes images of optic disc with edema. Presenting Symptom: Scotoma. Anatomy: Optic disc; Optic nerve. Pathology: Microscopic view of papilledema. Disease/Diagnosis: Pseudotumor cerebri; Papilledema. Treatment: Acetazolamide; Ventriculoper... | Text |
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Toxic Optic Neuropathies: Mitochondria and the RGC | Discussion of various forms of mitrochondrial optic neuropathies and how to distinguish from toxic optic neuropathies, with examples from Cuba and Brazil; includes images of optic disc showing LHON. Presenting Symptom: Blindness; Scotoma; Telangiectasis; Apoptosis; Dyschromatopsia. Anatomy: Optic ne... | Text |
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Viagra and Vision Loss: Does Sex Make You Blind? | Presenting symptom: Hypotension. Anatomy: Optic nerve; Optic disc; Cyclic Nucleotide Phosphodiesterases, Type 5. Disease/Diagnosis: Optic Neuropathy, Ischemic; Toxic optic neuropathy. | Text |
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Visual Cortex and Weird Phenomena (Anton's to Riddoch's) | Presenting Symptom: Alexia, Pure; Agraphia; Prosopagnosia; Palinopsia; Geschwind's Syndrome; Apraxia. Anatomy: Visual cortex; Optic nerve. Disease/Diagnosis: Aphasia; Hallucinations, Visual; Anton's Syndrome; Visual Agnosia; Blindness, Cortical; Cortical paralysis of fixation syndrome; Alzheimer's S... | Text |
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How Mitochondria Orchestrate the Death of RGCs : From Brazil to Tuebingen to Rochester 2007 | Slides showing LHON and Kjer's optic atrophy and images of optic disk with LHON. Anatomy: Optic nerve; Retina; Retinal ganglion cells; Reactive oxygen species. Disease/Diagnosis: Optic Atrophy, Hereditary, Leber. Presenting Symptom: Scotoma; Telangiectasis; Apoptosis; Dyschromatopsia; Blindness. | Text |
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An Epidemic of Blindness in Cuba: Lessons on Nutrition and Mitochondria | Presented at Stanford in April 2007, recapping the 1990s expedition to Cuba to investigate causes of blindness epidemic. Anatomy: Optic nerve. Disease/Diagnosis: Optic nerve diseases; Alcoholic neuropathy. Treatment: Folate. Presenting Symptom: Ambliopia; Ataxia; Paresthesia; Hyporeflexia. | Text |
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The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education's (ACGME) The New Competences | Presented at the PAAA/AAO Symposium on Teaching Residents Ophthalmology in the 21st Century, in Buenos Aires, July 2007 | Text |
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Teaching in the Operating Room | Presented at the PAAA/AAO Symposium on Teaching Residents Ophthalmology in the 21st Century, in Buenos Aires, July 2007. Treatment: Neurosurgery. | Text |
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Teaching Residents Ophthalmology in the 21st Century | Discusses teaching residents Ophthalmology. Covers issues relating to accreditation and the history of the ACGME. Accreditation criteria and core competencies are outlined. | Text |
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The 360 Degree Evaluation | Evaluation of medical residents by faculty, hospital staff, peers, and patients. | Text |
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Accreditation and the RRC | A slide presentation providing information on accreditation and the residency review committee (RRC). | Text |