Detailed examination of head and neck regions of the body. Intensive laboratory work studying prosected cadaver material. Emphasizes the major motor and sensory pathways and integrative mechanisms of the central nervous system. Eye dissections teach the functional relations between ocular tissues. Protein structure and chemistry, lipids, nucleic acids, carbohydrates, more complex molecules.
Clinical correlations illustrate the basic biochemical mechanisms.
Underlying systematics and genetics of parasites, host-parasite interactions. Etiology, demography and clinical characteristics of disease manifestations that an optometrist may encounter. Linear propagation, reflection, refraction, prisms, thin lenses alone and in combination, thick lenses, lens aberrations, magnifiers, ophthalmic instruments. Schematic eye models, refractive error correction, dioptrics of the eye, stimulus to accommodation, retinal image size and quality, purkinje images, entoptic phenomena, presbyopia, aphakia, intra-ocular implants, ocular radiation effects. This page is maintained by Health Professions Division.