Research Catalog

Title

The neurology of vision / Jonathan D. Trobe ; illustrations by Tanya K. Leonello.

Author

Trobe, Jonathan D., 1943-

Publication

New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.

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Description

xv, 451 pages : illustrations (some color); 26 cm.

Series Statement

Contemporary neurology series ; 60

Uniform Title

Contemporary neurology series ; 60.

Subjects

• Eye > innervation
• Ocular Physiological Phenomena
• Eye > physiopathology
• Vision Disorders

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Pt. I. How the Human Visual System Works. 1. The Optical, Retinocortical, and Integrative Components -- Pt. II. Symptoms of a Failing Visual System. 2. Symptoms of Optical Disorders. 3. Negative Symptoms of Retinocortical Disorders. 4. Positive Symptoms of Retinocortical Disorders. 5. Symptoms of Integrative Visual Disorders -- Pt. III. Measures of a Failing Visual System. 6. Visual Acuity, Contrast Sensitivity, Brightness Sense, and Color Vision. 7. Visual Fields. 8. Pupillary Reactions. 9. Dark Adaptometry, Electroretinography, and Visual Evoked Potentials -- Pt. IV. Topographic Disorders. 10. Retina and Choroid I: Vascular Disorders. 11. Retina and Choroid II: Inflammatory, Degenerative, Toxic, and Neoplastic Disorders. 12. Optic Nerve and Chiasm I: Inflammatory, Ischemic, and Increased Intracranial Pressure Disorders. 13. Optic Nerve and Chiasm II: Dysplastic, Neoplastic, Aneurysmal, Hereditary, Toxic, Nutritional, Traumatic, and Glaucomatous Disorders.
• 14. Optic Tract, Lateral Geniculate Body, and Anterior Optic Radiations. 15. Posterior Optic Radiations and Primary Visual Cortex. 16. Parietal Vision-Related Cortex. 17. Temporal Vision-Related Cortex -- Pt. V. Nonorganic Visual Disturbances. 18. Nonorganic Visual Disturbances -- Pt. VI. Problem Cases. 19. Questions. 20. Answers.

ISBN

0195129784 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

00055052

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries