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Title Advances in understanding mechanisms and treatment of infantile forms of nystagmus / edited by R. John Leigh, Michael W. Devereaux
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 213 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)
Contents Contributors; Part I: Basic Concepts of Stable Vision and Gaze; 1. Afferent and Efferent Contributions to Knowledge of Eye Position; 2. Perceptual Influences of the Extraretinal Signals for Normal Eye Movements and Infantile Nystagmus; 3. Perception with Unstable Fixation; 4. Internal and External Influences on Foveation and Perception in Infantile Nystagmus Syndrome; 5. Perceptual Fading during Voluntary and Involuntary Eye Movements; Part II: New Models and Techniques for Studying Gaze Stability; 6. Alternating Saccades in a Primate Model of Strabismus
Summary This volume brings together work from leading researchers in the fields of developmental disorders of binocular vision, strabismus, and both infantile and acquired forms of nystagmus. It contains four sections. The first section, Basic Concepts of Stable Vision and Gaze, deals with psychophysical aspects of infantile forms of nystagmus and the relative contributions of extraocular proprioception and efference (corollary discharge). It also contains an accessible review of current notions of spatial and temporal visual functions and spatial constancy in infantile nystagmus syndrome and latent n
Notes Result of a meeting held on May 3-4, 2007 at the Louis Stokes Cleveland Dept. of Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes English
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Subject Nystagmus -- Congresses
Pediatric ophthalmology -- Congresses
Infants -- Diseases -- Congresses
Vision in infants -- Congresses
Nystagmus, Congenital
Eye Movements -- physiology
Nystagmus, Congenital -- therapy
Strabismus
MEDICAL -- Pediatric Emergencies.
Infants -- Diseases
Nystagmus
Pediatric ophthalmology
Vision in infants
Genre/Form proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
Form Electronic book
Author Leigh, R. John.
Devereaux, Michael W.
LC no. 2007046222
ISBN 9780199711802
0199711801
1281724017
9781281724014
9786611724016
661172401X