Title: Advances in understanding mechanisms and treatment of infantile forms of nystagmus /
Authors: Devereaux, Michael W.; Leigh, R. John.
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Strabismus; Nystagmus, Congenital therapy; Eye Movements physiology; Nystagmus, Congenital; Infants Diseases Congresses.; Nystagmus Congresses.; Pediatric ophthalmology Congresses.; Vision in infants Congresses.
Contents: Basic concepts of stable vision and gaze -- Afferent and efferent contributions ot knowledge of eye position / Ewa Niechwiej-Szwedo, Martin J. Steinbach -- Perceptual influences of the extraretinal signals for normal eye movements and infantile nystagmus / Harold E. Bedell ... [et al.] -- Perception with unstable fixation / Richard V. Abadi -- Internal and external influences on foveation and perception in infantile nystagmus syndrome / Larry A. Abel, Linda Malesic -- Perceptual fading during voluntary and involuntary eye movements / Frank A. Proudlock, Astrid Y. Jorgensen, Irene Gottlob -- New modesl and techniques for studying gaze stability -- Alternating sacades in a primate model of strabismus / Vallabh E. Das -- Effects of cerebellar lesions in monkeys on gaze stability / Mark F. Walker ... [et al.] -- Development of visual stabilization devices with applications for acquired and infantile nystagmus / John S. Stahl, Igor S. Kofman, Zachary C. Thumser / Pumpil abnormalities of the near response in children with visual display terminal syndrome / Akio Tabuchi, Atsushi Fujiwara, Mahmoodi Khadija -- New therapies for congenital nystagmus -- Genetics and pharmacological treatment of nystagmus : a review of the literatur and recent findings / Irene Gottlob -- New treatments for infantile and other forms of nystagmus / Louis F. Dell'osso -- Clinical and electrophysiological effects of etraocular muscle surgery on fifty-three patients with infantile periodic alternating nystagmus / Richard W. Hertle ... [et al.] -- Eye muscle surgery for acuired forms of nystagmus / Robert L. Tomsak -- The complement hypothesis to explain preferential involvemnet of extraocular muscle in myasthenia gravis / Henry J. Kaminski ... [et al.]