Description A volume in the Handbook of Clinical Neurophysiology series on the visual system.
Audience
Neurophysiologists, neurologists, ophthalmologists and neuroscience research workers.
Contents Section 1 Anatomy and Physiology of the Human Visual System. Morphology and physiology of the retina. Anatomy and physiology of the visual
pathways and cortex. Visual attention and visual awareness. Section 2 Methodologies and techniques. Electroretinography. The multifocal
electroretinogram. Visual evoked potentials. Oscillatory responses and gamma band activity. Visual evoked magneto potentials, visual
evoked magnetic fields and magnetic stimulations of the visual cortex. Psychophysical techniques. Visual cognitive ERPs. Assessment of
vision in infants and young children. Role of clinical neurophysiology in assessing both normal and pathological processing of visual
information. Section 3 Disorders of peripheral visual processing. Color vision deficiencies. Genetically determined disorders of retinal
function. Acquired retinopathies. Experimental genetic disorders and visual neurophysiology. Section 4 Disorders of central visual
processing. Central disorders of visual processing - a pragmatic classification. Positive spontaneous visual phenomena. Optic neuropathies
and disorders of optic chiasma. Visual field defects of central origin. Visual apperception and agnosia. Cortical blindness and visual
anosognosia. Blindsight - hypotheses and clinical implications. Achromatopsia and chromatic blindsight. Visual disfunction in disorders
with altered dopaminergic neurotransmission. Multiple sclerosis and other demyelinating disorders. Dementia and alzheimer's disease.
Epilepsy and visual phenomena. Section 5 Future advances. Future advances and applications.
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