PURPOSE To compare the efficacy and sensory outcome of pharmacologic and optical penalization in the treatment of moderate to mild amblyopia. DESIGN Randomized clinical trial. METHODS In an institutional setting, two- to 10-year-old children with strabismic or anisometropic amblyopia (visual acuity in the amblyopic eye at least 20/60) who were cooperative to measure visual acuity using the ...

AIM To evaluate factors influencing stereoacuity after surgery to correct unilateral developmental pediatric cataracts. METHODS We retrospectively surveyed 110 patients who had undergone removal of unilateral acquired developmental cataracts and primary posterior chamber intraocular lens implantation between February 1992 and December 2009. In all patients, stereoacuity was assessed using the...

PURPOSE To report the outcomes in patients undergoing surgical correction of intermittent exotropia and to compare the age at surgery to motor and sensory success. METHODS This was a retrospective cohort study. The results of patients with intermittent exotropia treated with surgery over a 4-year period were reviewed. Patients were divided into two groups based on age at first surgery (<4 yea...

Declaration This dissertation is the result of my own work and includes nothing which is the outcome of work done in collaboration. This dissertation is not substantially the same as any I have submitted for a degree, diploma or other qualification at any other university. i ii Acknowledgements I should like to thank my research supervisor, Dr Lawrence Paulson, for the freedom he allowed me in ...

Esotropia that is of such a degree that the image is projected on the physiologic blind spot of the deviating eye is a clinical entity termed the blind-spot syndrome, or when ac­ companied by abnormal sensory findings, the blind-spot mechanism. 1 ' 2 Swan 3-4 divided patients with the blind spot mechanism into four groups, including a group with a combi­ nation of amblyopia and eccentric fixati...

s of the Ophthalmic Literature Compiled by: Jacqueline Shimko, C.O. Cindy Pritchard, C.O. Candace Springer, C.O. Colleen Gallagher, C.O. Katherine Fray, C.O. Kyle Arnoldi, C.O. Wanda McFarlane, C.O. Ingrid Rocha-Gamba, C.O. Racquel Beneish, C.O. ABROMS AD, MOHNEY BG, RUSH DP, PARTKS MM, TONG PY: Timely surgery in intermittent and constant exotropia for superior sensory outcome: Am J Ophthalmol ...

Munson, J. B., R. D. Johnson, and L. M. Mendell. NT-3 inNT-3 mRNA is expressed in muscle spindles (Copray and creases amplitude of EPSPs produced by axotomized group Ia Brouwer 1994). afferents. J. Neurophysiol. 77: 2209–2212, 1997. We tested the Recently, it has become clear that neurotrophins might hypothesis that neurotrophin-3 (NT-3) in adult cats can rescue the act also as a trophic factor...

People express their mental states all the time, even when interacting with machines. These mental states shape the decisions that we make, govern how we communicate with others, and affect our performance. The ability to attribute mental states to others from their behaviour, and to use that knowledge to guide one’s own actions and predict those of others is known as theory of mind or mind-rea...

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Introduction: Brown syndrome is a rare ocular movement abnormality. This syndrome is characterized by an inability to elevate the affected eye in adduction. Most cases are sporadic but the occurrence in Monozygotic twins has suggested the possible autosomal dominant inheritance in Brown syndrome. Case presentation: A 4-year-old girl (one pair of dizygotic twins) was referred to our pediatric op...