Clinical Management of Binocular Vision
Clinical Management of Binocular Vision

Author: Mitchell Scheiman

Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 644

ISBN-13:

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In an easy-to-follow format, this text offers an organized approach to the analysis of optometric data, diagnosis and treatment of accommodative and binocular vision disorders. The unique presentation of the material by diagnostic category allows the quick retrieval of information, according to the diagnostic condition. Each condition or diagnosis includes background information, symptoms, signs, case analysis and management options, with emphasis on principles of treatment and treatment alternatives. Case studies at the end of each chapter further emphasize the application to clinical care.

Vision Rehabilitation
Vision Rehabilitation

Author: Penelope S. Suter

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2016-04-19

Total Pages: 544

ISBN-13: 1439836566

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Providing the information required to understand, advocate for, and supply post-acute vision rehabilitative care following brain injury, Vision Rehabilitation: Multidisciplinary Care of the Patient Following Brain Injury bridges the gap between theory and practice. It presents clinical information and scientific literature supporting the diagnostic and therapeutic strategies applied in a comprehensive overview of current diagnostic and treatment strategies in adult post-brain injury vision rehabilitation. Includes a foreword by Dr. Sue Barry Because post-brain injury rehabilitation works best in a team setting where the entire person can be treated, this text has been carefully designed as a multidisciplinary resource with an emphasis on models for working with the rehabilitation team. The book covers a myriad of topics such as post-brain injury vision rehabilitation; eye movements; binocular dysfunction; visual field loss; visual-spatial neglect; shifts in visual egocenter affecting balance and coordination; visual-vestibular interactions; central vs. peripheral visual attention; as well as deficits in object perception, visual memory, and visual cognition. The book details models that vision specialists working with the rehabilitation team can use to achieve the best success for the patient in rehabilitation; vision rehabilitation concepts and the science from which they have been developed; examples of therapeutic exercises; practice management information for the post-brain injury vision rehabilitation practice; and information on the legal process in which one frequently becomes involved in this type of work. Edited by eminent clinicians, the book highlights the work of contributors who are well-respected academicians and researchers, bringing together the clinical information that enables everyone involved in a brain injury case to grasp the diagnostic and therapeutic strategies.

Fixing My Gaze
Fixing My Gaze

Author: Susan R. Barry

Publisher: Basic Books

Published: 2009-05-26

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 078674474X

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A revelatory account of the brain's capacity for change When neuroscientist Susan Barry was fifty years old, she experienced the sense of immersion in a three dimensional world for the first time. Skyscrapers on street corners appeared to loom out toward her like the bows of giant ships. Tree branches projected upward and outward, enclosing and commanding palpable volumes of space. Leaves created intricate mosaics in 3D. Barry had been cross-eyed and stereoblind since early infancy. After half a century of perceiving her surroundings as flat and compressed, on that day she saw the city of Manhattan in stereo depth for first time in her life. As a neuroscientist, she understood just how extraordinary this transformation was, not only for herself but for the scientific understanding of the human brain. Scientists have long believed that the brain is malleable only during a "critical period" in early childhood. According to this theory, Barry's brain had organized itself when she was a baby to avoid double vision - and there was no way to rewire it as an adult. But Barry found an optometrist who prescribed a little-known program of vision therapy; after intensive training, Barry was ultimately able to accomplish what other scientists and even she herself had once considered impossible. Dubbed "Stereo Sue" by renowned neurologist Oliver Sacks, Susan Barry tells her own remarkable journey and celebrates the joyous pleasure of our senses.

The Psychoanalytic Vision
The Psychoanalytic Vision

Author: Frank Summers

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-05-20

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1136739319

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Psychoanalytic therapy is distinguished by its immersion in the world of the experiencing subject. In The Psychoanalytic Vision, Frank Summers argues that analytic therapy and its unique epistemology is a worldview that stands in clear opposition to the hegemonic cultural value system of objectification, quantification, and materialism. The Psychoanalytic Vision situates psychoanalysis as a voice of the rebel, affirming the importance of the subjective in contrast to the culture of objectification. Founded on phenomenological philosophy from which it derives its unique epistemology and ethical grounding, psychoanalytic therapy as a hermeneutic of the experiential world has no role for reified concepts. Consequently, fundamental analytic concepts such as "the unconscious" and "the intrapsychic," are reconceptualized to eliminate reifying elements. The essence of The Psychoanalytic Vision is the freshness of its theoretical and clinical approach as a hermeneutic of the experiential world. Fundamental clinical phenomena, such as dreams, time, and the experience of the other, are reformulated, and these theoretical shifts are illustrated with a variety of vivid case descriptions. The last part of the book is devoted to the surreptitious role beliefs and values of contemporary culture play in many forms of psychopathology. For clinicians, The Psychoanalytic Vision offers a fresh clinical theory based on the consistent application of the subjectification of human experience, and for scholars, a worldview that provides the framework for a potentially fruitful cross-fertilization of ideas with cognate disciplines.

Cognitive and Perceptual Rehabilitation
Cognitive and Perceptual Rehabilitation

Author: Glen Gillen

Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences

Published: 2008-04-29

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 0323074707

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Reflecting current practice with a renewed focus on function-based assessments and evidence-based interventions, Cognitive and Perceptual Rehabilitation: Optimizing Function includes all of the tools you need to make a positive impact on your patients’ lives. This clinical resource summarizes, highlights, and constructively critiques the state of cognitive and perceptual rehabilitation. This text helps you enhance your patients’ quality of life by promoting improved performance of necessary and meaningful activities, and decreasing participation restrictions. Evidence-based intervention tables focus on improving daily function through proven methods. Summary tables highlight each assessment’s clinical utility and pyschometric properties to provide you with the tools you need to choose the best assessment for each patient. An entire chapter on Application of Concepts features five case studies, each discussing background data and medical record review, evaluation findings, assessments, long-term goals, short-term goals, and interventions/functional activities to help you apply the theories and principles from the book to real-world situations. Handy learning aids including Key Terms, Learning Objectives, and Review Questions help you remember important information.

Strabismus
Strabismus

Author: Gunter K. Von Noorden

Publisher:

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13:

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Provides an orderly and logical approach to the common and less common forms of strabismus treatment to be followed as the patient is being examined. It is organized into two sections: preliminaries and diagnostic; and treatment decisions.

Duke-Elder's Practice of Refraction
Duke-Elder's Practice of Refraction

Author: David Abrams

Publisher:

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13:

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Presents the theory and practice of the correction of defects in the optical system of the eyes and their associated muscles. Includes coverage of contact lenses, methods of objective testing, lens implantation after cataract surgery, and contrast sensitivity testing for visual acuity.