Description
Neurology of Vision and Visual Disorders, Volume 178 in the Handbooks of Neurology series provides comprehensive summaries of recent research on the brain and nervous system. This volume reviews alterations in vision that stem from the retina to the cortex. Coverage includes content on vision and driving derived from the large amount of time devoted in clinics to determining who is safe to drive, along with research on the interplay between visual loss, attention and strategic compensations that may determine driving suitability. The title concludes with vision therapies and the evidence behind these approaches.
Each chapter is co-written by a basic scientist collaborating with a clinician to provide a solid underpinning of the mechanisms behind the clinical syndromes.
- Reviews the neurological underpinnings of visual perception disorders
- Encompasses the cortex to the retina
- Covers functional organization, electrophysiology and subcortical visual pathways
- Discusses assessment, diagnosis and management of visual perception disorders
- Includes international experts from Australia, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Singapore, and the UK and US
Table of Contents
1. A review of diseases of the retina for neurologists
2. Amblyopia
3. Retinal ganglion cells and the magnocellular, parvocellular, and koniocellular subcortical visual pathways from the eye to the brain
4. Perimetry and visual field defects
5. Electrophysiology in neuro-ophthalmology
6. The role of optical coherence tomography in the diagnosis of afferent visual pathway problems: A neuroophthalmic perspective
7. The striate cortex and hemianopia
8. Color vision
11. Object recognition and visual object agnosia
10. Prosopagnosia and disorders of face processing
11. The relationship between mental and physical space and its impact on topographical disorientation
12. Reading and alexia
13. Bálint syndrome
14. Motion perception and its disorders
15. Aphantasia: The science of visual imagery extremes
16. Blindsight
17. Illusions, hallucinations, and visual snow
18. Vision, attention, and driving
19. Rehabilitation of visual disorders
