REVIEWING a series of sixty-odd cases of concomitant squint upon which I have operated, two points were brought out very clearly 1. The high percentage of amblyopic eyes found due to neglect in starting treatment early and in carrying it out efficiently. 2. That the operation is as a rule successful and gives real satisfaction to the patient. Next, the value of orthoptic training (eye exercises...

Dr. Wagner is on the speaker’s bureau of Alcon Laboratories. doi: 10.3928/01913913-20130610-01 Nearly a decade ago, the American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus (AAPOS) presented a set of risk factors for amblyopia. The intent was to promote uniformity of reporting and to assist industry and investigators to set referral cut-offs. This would allow for uniform validation c...

KOPV, le Kit Orthoptique de la Perception Visuelle est une nouvelle batterie d’évaluation perception visuelle, rapide et ludique, ouvrant à remédiation pour permettre chaque enfant mieux percevoir construire monde qui l’entoure. Les différentes planches proposées abordent visuelle dimension, l’orientation, l’organisation spatiale, position dans l’espace 2D des pièces les unes par rapport aux au...

ACCORDING to Ciuppers (1958), about 2 per cent. of the population of Germany, France, and Switzerland suffer from unilateral amblyopia; the proportion in Great Britain is likely to be very similar. Though amblyopia resulting from ocular deviation may arise where the fixation is central, the great importance of eccentric fixation in relation to amblyopia is now generally recognized and considera...

conclusions the results of this study show that narrative therapy is a suitable approach for solving couples’ conflicts. background conflict among couples is one of the most important issues in the family and often causes wives to refer for therapy. one of the most important therapeutic approaches is narrative therapy, the efficacy of which is investigated in this paper. objectives the aim of t...

background treatment for psychological disorders is generally based on signs and symptoms, and research in this area has shown that major depression has become one of the most significant psychiatric disorders of the last decade. objectives this study was conducted to compare the effects of schema therapy and cognitive group therapy on women with depression who were engaging in high-risk sexual...

This research tested the hypothesis that the successful treatment of convergence insufficiency (CI) with vision-training (VT) procedures, leads to an increased capacity of vergence adaptation (VAdapt) allowing a more rapid downward adjustment of the convergence accommodation cross-link. Nine subjects with CI were recruited from a clinical population, based upon reduced fusional vergence amplitu...