Vision
Subtitle: how it works and what can go wrong
By: John E. Dowling and Joseph L. Dowling, Jr
Contributors: Dowling, Joseph L., Jr
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780262034616
Subjects: Ophthalmology; Eye; Diseases; Popular works; Physiology; Vision
Description: "Over the past fifty years, enormous progress has been made in understanding visual mechanisms and treating eye disorders. And yet the scientist is not always aware of the latest clinical advances and the clinician is often not up to date on the basic scientific discoveries. Writing in nontechnical language, John and Joseph Dowling, a neuroscientist and an ophthalmologist, examine vision from both perspectives, providing concise descriptions of basic visual mechanisms and related clinical abnormalities."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Visual pathways, eye development, and retinal organization : visual deficits and blindness; title: Focusing light; title: cornea and lens : refractive errors, dry eye, and cataracts; title: Capturing light; title: the photoreceptors : retinitis pigmentosa and age-related macular degeneration; title: Analyzing the visual image; title: the retina : glaucoma and diabetic retinopathy; title: Beyond the retina; title: lateral geniculate nucleus and visual cortex : amblyopia; title: Higher-level processing and visual perception : blindsight; title: Looking back and forward.