Advances in Understanding Mechanisms and Treatment of Infantile Forms of Nystagmus

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 nystagmus. The second section, New Models and Techniques for Studying Gaze Stability, reviews animal and development models for strabismus, amblyopia, and nystagmus. It also contains novel optical methods for managing the visual consequences of nystagmus and a study of the potential ill effects of video displays on children's response to near viewing. The third section, New Therapies for Congenital Nystagmus, presents basic genetic studies and clinical trials of drug and surgical treatment of those patients with infantile forms of nystagmus. The final section, General Aspects of Normal and Abnormal Gaze Control, pulls together a range of contributions dealing with normal gaze control, infantile nystagmus, and acquired disorders of eye movements, including new treatment measures. This book will be a valuable resource for all scientists and practitioners interested in developmental disorders of vision. 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.] General Aspects Of Normal And Abnormal Gaze Control -- Studies Of The Ability To Hold The Eye In Eccentric Gaze : Measurements In Normal Subjects With The Head Erect / Jeffrey T. Somers ... [et Al.] -- Effect Of Eye Exercise On Clinical Ouctcome Of Noncompressive Ocular Motor Nerve Palsy / Anuchit Poonyathalang, Pisit Preechawat, Vitoo Janvimaluang -- Expanding The Original Behavioral Infantile Nystagmus Syndrome Model To Jerk Warveforms And Gaze-angle Variations / Zhong I. Wang, Louis F. Dell'osso, Jonathan B. Jacobs -- Extension Of The Expanded Nystagmus Acuity Function To Vertical And Multiplanar Data / Jonathan B. Jacobs, Louis F. Dell'osso -- Inertial And Noninertial Contributions To The Perception Of Translation And Path / Scott H. Seidman -- The Efects Of The Duncker Visual Illusion On Occluded Smooth-arm Tracking / Ari Z. Zivotofsky ... [et Al.] -- Posterior Internuclear Ophthalmoplegia Of Lutz Revisitied : Report Of A Case Associated With A Midbrain Lesion / Bernd F. Remler, R. John Leigh -- Divergence Insufficiency Associated With Hereditary Spinocerebellar Atazia / David G. Morrison, Sean P. Donahue, Patrick J. M. Lavin -- Neuromuscular Junction Dysfunction In Miller Fisher Syndrome / Janet C. Rucker -- Involuntary Version-vergence Nystagmus Induced By Ground-plane Optic Flow : Analysis Of Dynamic Characteristics Of Nystagmus Quic Phases / Dongsheng Yang, Mingxia Zhu, Richard W. Hertle -- The Neuro-ophthalmologic Complications Of Chiropractic Manipulation / Michael W. Devereaux -- Vergence Hystersis In Infantile Nystagmus / Alessandro Serra, Louis F. Dell'osso, Zhong I. Wang -- Using Wavelet Analysis To Evaluate Effects Of Eye And Head Movements On Ocular Oscillations / Ke Liao ... [et Al.] -- Multifocal Electroretinographic Study Of Patients With Oculocutaneous Albinism And Infantile Nystagmus Syndrome / Elsa Bala, Jonathan B. Jacobs, Neal S. Peachy. Edited By R. John Leigh, Michael W. Devereaux. Result Of A Meeting Held On May 3-4, 2007 At The Louis Stokes Cleveland Dept. Of Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes.