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Li M, Chen X, Yuan N, Lu Y, Liu Y, Gong H, Qian L, Andolina IM, Wu J, Zhang S, McLoughlin N, Sun X, Wang W. Effects of acute high intraocular pressure on red-green and blue-yellow cortical color responses in non-human primates. Neuroimage Clin 2022; 35:103092. [PMID: 35753237 PMCID: PMC9249948 DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2022.103092] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2022] [Revised: 05/17/2022] [Accepted: 06/18/2022] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Glaucoma is a leading cause of irreversible blindness worldwide, and intraocular pressure (IOP) is an established and modifiable risk factor for both chronic and acute glaucoma. The relationship between color vision deficits and chronic glaucoma has been described previously. However, the effects of acute glaucoma or acute primary angle closure, which has high prevalence in China, on color vision remains unclear. To address the above question, red-green or blue-yellow color responses in V1, V2, and V4 of seven rhesus macaques were monitored using intrinsic-signal optical imaging while monocular anterior chamber perfusions were performed to reversibly elevate IOP acutely over a clinically observed range of 30 to 90 mmHg. We found that the cortical population responses to both red-green and blue-yellow grating stimuli, systematically decreased as IOP increased from 30 to 90 mmHg. Although a similar decrement in magnitude was noted in V1, V2, and V4, blue-yellow responses were consistently more impaired than red-green responses at all levels of acute IOP elevation and in all monitored visual areas. This physiological study in non-human primates demonstrates that acute IOP elevations substantially depress the ability of the visual cortex to register color information. This effect is more severe for blue-yellow responses than for red-green responses, suggesting selective impairment of the koniocellular pathways compared with the parvocellular pathways. Together, we infer that blue-yellow color vision might be the most vulnerable visual function in acute glaucoma patients.
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- Mengwei Li
- Eye Institute and Department of Ophthalmology, Eye & ENT Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Eye Institute and Department of Ophthalmology, Eye & ENT Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Eye Institute and Department of Ophthalmology, Eye & ENT Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China; Institute of Neuroscience, Key Laboratory of Primate Neurobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology, State Key Laboratory of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai Center for Brain Science and Brain-Inspired Intelligence Technology, Shanghai, China.
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- Institute of Neuroscience, Key Laboratory of Primate Neurobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology, State Key Laboratory of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai Center for Brain Science and Brain-Inspired Intelligence Technology, Shanghai, China
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- Institute of Neuroscience, Key Laboratory of Primate Neurobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology, State Key Laboratory of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai Center for Brain Science and Brain-Inspired Intelligence Technology, Shanghai, China
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- Institute of Neuroscience, Key Laboratory of Primate Neurobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology, State Key Laboratory of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai Center for Brain Science and Brain-Inspired Intelligence Technology, Shanghai, China
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- Institute of Neuroscience, Key Laboratory of Primate Neurobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology, State Key Laboratory of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai Center for Brain Science and Brain-Inspired Intelligence Technology, Shanghai, China
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- Institute of Neuroscience, Key Laboratory of Primate Neurobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology, State Key Laboratory of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai Center for Brain Science and Brain-Inspired Intelligence Technology, Shanghai, China
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- Eye Institute and Department of Ophthalmology, Eye & ENT Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China; NHC Key Laboratory of Myopia (Fudan University), Key Laboratory of Myopia, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Shanghai, China; Shanghai Key Laboratory of Visual Impairment and Restoration, Shanghai, China
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- Eye Institute and Department of Ophthalmology, Eye & ENT Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China; NHC Key Laboratory of Myopia (Fudan University), Key Laboratory of Myopia, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Shanghai, China; Shanghai Key Laboratory of Visual Impairment and Restoration, Shanghai, China
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- School of Optometry and Vision Science, University of Bradford, UK
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- Eye Institute and Department of Ophthalmology, Eye & ENT Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China; State Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology and MOE Frontiers Center for Brain Science, Institutes of Brain Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, China; NHC Key Laboratory of Myopia (Fudan University), Key Laboratory of Myopia, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Shanghai, China; Shanghai Key Laboratory of Visual Impairment and Restoration, Shanghai, China.
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- Institute of Neuroscience, Key Laboratory of Primate Neurobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology, State Key Laboratory of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai Center for Brain Science and Brain-Inspired Intelligence Technology, Shanghai, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
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Huchzermeyer C, Horn F, Lämmer R, Mardin C, Kremers J. Summation of Temporal L-Cone- and M-Cone-Contrast in the Magno- and Parvocellular Retino-Geniculate Systems in Glaucoma. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2021; 62:17. [PMID: 33988692 PMCID: PMC8132014 DOI: 10.1167/iovs.62.6.17] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Purpose The purpose of this study was to characterize summation of temporal L- and M-cone contrasts in the parvo- (P-) and magnocellular (M-) pathways in glaucoma and the relationship between the respective temporal contrast sensitivities (tCS) and clinical parameters. Methods Perifoveal tCS to isolated or combined L- and M-cone contrasts (with different contrast ratios, and therefore different luminance and chromatic components) were measured at different temporal frequencies (at 1 or 2 Hz and at 20 Hz) using triple silent substitution in 73 subjects (13 healthy, 25 with glaucoma, and 35 with perimetric glaucoma). A vector summation model was used to analyze whether perception was driven by the P-pathway, the M-pathway, or both. Using this model, L- and M-cone input strengths (AL, AM) and phase differences between L- and M-cone inputs were estimated. Results Perception was always mediated by the P-pathway at low frequencies, as indicated by a median phase angle of 179.84 degrees (cone opponency) and a median AL/AM ratio of 1.04 (balanced L- and M-cone input strengths). In contrast, perception was exclusively mediated by the M-pathway at higher frequencies (input strength not balanced: AL/AM = 2.94, median phase angles = 130.17 degrees). Differences in phase were not significant between diagnosis groups (Kruskal-Wallis = 0.092 for P- and 0.35 for M-pathway). We found differences between groups only for the M-pathway (L-cone tCS deviations at 20 Hz were significantly lower in the patients with glaucoma P = 0.014, with a strong tendency in M-cones P = 0.049). L-cone driven tCS deviations at 20 Hz were linearly correlated with perimetric mean defect (MD) and quadratically correlated with retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) thickness. Conclusions Unaltered phase angles between L- and M-cone inputs in glaucoma indicated intact temporal processing. Only in the M-pathway, contrast sensitivity deviations were closely related to diagnosis group, MD, and RNFL thickness, indicating M-pathway involvement.
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- Cord Huchzermeyer
- Department of Ophthalmology, University Hospital Erlangen, Germany.,Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
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- Department of Ophthalmology, University Hospital Erlangen, Germany.,Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
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- Department of Ophthalmology, University Hospital Erlangen, Germany.,Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
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- Department of Ophthalmology, University Hospital Erlangen, Germany.,Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
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- Department of Ophthalmology, University Hospital Erlangen, Germany.,Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
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Yum HR, Park HYL, Park CK. Characteristics of Normal-tension Glaucoma Patients with Temporal Retinal Nerve Fibre Defects. Sci Rep 2020; 10:6362. [PMID: 32286476 PMCID: PMC7156753 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-63486-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2019] [Accepted: 03/31/2020] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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Glaucomatous visual field (VF) damage usually involves in the Bjerrum area, which refers to outside the central 10° region. However, some reports suggest that structural damage to the macula occurs even in the early stages of glaucoma. We investigated the characteristics of normal tension glaucoma (NTG) patients with temporal retinal nerve fibre layer (RNFL) defects. Ninety eyes from 90 subjects including 30 normal eyes, 30 eyes of 30 patients with normal-tension glaucoma with temporal RNFL defects, and 30 eyes of 30 patients with normal-tension glaucoma with inferotemporal or superotemporal RNFL defects were enrolled. The best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) decreased significantly in glaucomatous eyes with temporal RNFL defects as compared with in controls and glaucomatous eyes with inferotemporal or superotemporal RNFL defects. VF tests showed more frequent central or cecocentral VF defects involving the central 10° region in glaucomatous eyes with temporal RNFL defects. VF defects were more frequently detected on short-wavelength automated perimetry (SWAP). Eyes with temporal RNFL defects had generally reduced ganglion cell-inner plexiform layer (GCIPL) thickness. In addition, the BCVA, GCIPL thicknesses, and SWAP findings were significantly different in glaucoma patients with temporal RNFL defects according to their colour vision deficiency, not RNFL thickness or standard automated perimetry (SAP) results.
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- Hae Ri Yum
- Department of Ophthalmology, Eunpyeong St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, South Korea
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- Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Science, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, South Korea
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- Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Science, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, South Korea.
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Spaide RF. Measurable Aspects of the Retinal Neurovascular Unit in Diabetes, Glaucoma, and Controls. Am J Ophthalmol 2019; 207:395-409. [PMID: 31078537 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajo.2019.04.035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/29/2018] [Revised: 04/15/2019] [Accepted: 04/18/2019] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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PURPOSE To study the structural and angiographic optical coherence tomography (OCT) data of the macula from controls, patients with diabetes, and patients with glaucoma to evaluate neurovascular and structural relationships. METHODS This was a retrospective study of 89 eyes from 49 patients in a community-based retinal referral practice with diabetes, glaucoma, and normal controls. The patients were evaluated with OCT to include retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) thickness measurement and ganglion cell layer (GCL) volume determination. The vascular density of the radial peripapillary capillary network and the vascular plexuses in the macula were evaluated with OCT angiography. The main outcome measures were the data obtained per disease state and the interrelationships the data displayed. RESULTS The mean GCL volumes were significantly lower than the control group in both the diabetic (P = .016) and glaucoma (P < .001) groups. The difference between the diabetic and glaucoma groups was not significant (P = .052). The mean global vascular density was greater in the control group than the diabetic group (P = .002) and the glaucoma group (P < .001). The mean RNFL thicknesses were lowest in the glaucoma group. Both the diabetic and glaucoma groups had significantly lower radial peripapillary network and deep vascular plexus density values compared to controls. CONCLUSIONS Although there are important differences in disease pathogenesis between diabetes and glaucoma, they share certain similarities in the structural and angiographic abnormalities eventually produced. This suggests that, in addition to canonical pathways of disease, a component of both could represent neurodegenerative disease, offering the possibility for the development of new treatments. NOTE: Publication of this article is sponsored by the American Ophthalmological Society.
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- Richard F Spaide
- Vitreous Retina Macula Consultants of New York, New York, New York, USA.
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Dul M, Ennis R, Radner S, Lee B, Zaidi Q. Retinal adaptation abnormalities in primary open-angle glaucoma. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2015; 56:1329-34. [PMID: 25613950 DOI: 10.1167/iovs.14-15725] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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PURPOSE Dynamic color and brightness adaptation are crucial for visual functioning. The effects of glaucoma on retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) could compromise these functions. We have previously used slow dynamic changes of light at moderate intensities to measure the speed and magnitude of subtractive adaptation in RGCs. We used the same procedure to test if RGC abnormalities cause slower and weaker adaptation for patients with glaucoma when compared to age-similar controls. We assessed adaptation deficits in specific classes of RGCs by testing along the three cardinal color axes that isolate konio, parvo, and magno RGCs. METHODS For one eye each of 10 primary open-angle glaucoma patients and their age-similar controls, we measured the speed and magnitude of adapting to 1/32 Hz color modulations along the three cardinal axes, at central fixation and 8° superior, inferior, nasal, and temporal to fixation. RESULTS In all 15 comparisons (5 locations × 3 color axes), average adaptation was slower and weaker for glaucoma patients than for controls. Adaptation developed slower at central targets than at 8° eccentricities for controls, but not for patients. Adaptation speed and magnitude differed between affected and control eyes even at retinal locations showing no visual field loss with clinical perimetry. CONCLUSIONS Neural adaptation is weaker in glaucoma patients for all three classes of RGCs. Since adaptation abnormalities are manifested even at retinal locations not exhibiting a visual field loss, this novel form of assessment may offer a functional insight into glaucoma and an early diagnosis tool.
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- Mitchell Dul
- Department of Biological & Visual Sciences and Graduate Center for Vision Research, State University of New York College of Optometry, New York, New York, United States
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- Department of Biological & Visual Sciences and Graduate Center for Vision Research, State University of New York College of Optometry, New York, New York, United States
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- Department of Biological & Visual Sciences and Graduate Center for Vision Research, State University of New York College of Optometry, New York, New York, United States
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- Department of Biological & Visual Sciences and Graduate Center for Vision Research, State University of New York College of Optometry, New York, New York, United States
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- Department of Biological & Visual Sciences and Graduate Center for Vision Research, State University of New York College of Optometry, New York, New York, United States
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Al Saeidi R, Kernt M, Kreutzer TC, Rudolph G, Neubauer AS, Haritoglou C. Quantitative computerized color vision testing in diabetic retinopathy: A possible screening tool? Oman J Ophthalmol 2014; 6:S36-9. [PMID: 24391371 PMCID: PMC3872842 DOI: 10.4103/0974-620x.122294] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022] Open
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PURPOSE To evaluate the efficacy of a computerized color vision testing (Arden color contrast test) as a screening test for detection of diabetic macular edema (DME). MATERIALS AND METHODS A consecutive, prospective case series of 83 eyes of 42 diabetic patients with and without macular edema was enrolled. Macular edema was assessed clinically by stereoscopic grading and by central retinal thickness measurement with optical coherence tomography (OCT). Additionally, a computerized chromatest for the protan- and tritan-axis was performed. Analysis of test characteristics included receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves and calculated sensitivity and specificity. RESULTS Sixty-one eyes had clinically significant macular edema (CSME). OCT yielded an area under the ROC curve (AUC) of 0.92. Color vision testing yielded an AUC of 0.82 for the tritan- and 0.80 for the protan-axis. Using a cut off of 199 microns OCT resulted in a 100% sensitivity at 39% specificity. With a cut-off of 4.85, color testing yielded a sensitivity of 100% at a specificity of 8% on the tritan-axis, respectively. Considering OCT instead of clinical examination as a reference standard resulted in a comparable high sensitivity, but low specificity for color vision testing. Disturbance of the tritan axis was more pronounced than for the protan axis in present macular edema and also better correlated (r = 0.46) with retinal thickness measured with OCT. CONCLUSIONS Computerized, quantitative color testing using the chromatest allows detection of diabetic maculopathy with high sensitivity. However, only a low specificity exists for retinal macular edema, as in diabetic retinopathy (DR) frequently abnormalities of the tritan axis exist before any retinal thickening occurs.
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- Rashid Al Saeidi
- Department of Ophthalmology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Mathildenstr, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Mathildenstr, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Mathildenstr, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Mathildenstr, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Mathildenstr, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Mathildenstr, Munich, Germany
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Swanson WH, Sun H, Lee BB, Cao D. Responses of primate retinal ganglion cells to perimetric stimuli. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2011; 52:764-71. [PMID: 20881286 DOI: 10.1167/iovs.10-6158] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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PURPOSE Perimetry is used clinically to assess glaucomatous ganglion cell loss. It has been proposed that frequency-doubling stimuli are better than the conventional size III perimetric stimulus in preferentially stimulating magnocellular (M) versus parvocellular (P) ganglion cells. However, little is known about how primate ganglion cells respond to perimetric stimuli. The authors recorded contrast responses of M and P ganglion cells to size III and frequency-doubling stimuli and compared contrast gain of M and P cells to these stimuli to assess the ability of these stimuli to preferentially stimulate M versus P cells. METHODS Data were recorded from 69 macaque retinal ganglion cells, by an in vivo preparation, at eccentricities of 5° to 15°. The size III stimulus was a circular luminance increment 26 min arc in diameter, 200 ms in duration. The frequency-doubling stimulus was a sinusoidal grating (0.5 cyc/deg) temporally modulated in counterphase at 13 Hz. A Michaelis-Menten function was fit to each cell's contrast responses to assess contrast gain. RESULTS For both size III and frequency-doubling stimuli, ganglion cell responses increased linearly at low contrasts, and then the increase slowed at high contrasts (saturation). The mean (± SE) difference in estimated log contrast gain between M and P cells for the size III stimulus was significantly higher than that for the frequency-doubling stimulus (1.24 ± 0.09 vs. 0.89 ± 0.13; P < 0.01). CONCLUSIONS The size III stimulus was superior to the frequency-doubling stimulus in preferentially stimulating M cells versus P cells.
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- William H Swanson
- School of Optometry, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405-3680, USA.
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PURPOSE We simulate how subjects with losses in chromatic and achromatic contrast sensitivity perceive colored images by using the spatiochromatic corresponding pair algorithm. METHODS This is a generalized version of the algorithm by Capilla et al. (J Opt Soc Am (A) 2004;21:176-186) for simulating color perception of color deviant subjects, which incorporates a simple spatial vision model, consisting of a linear filtering stage, with a band-pass achromatic filter and two low-pass chromatic ones, for the red-green and blue-yellow mechanisms. These filters, except for the global scaling, are the subject's contrast sensitivity functions measured along the cardinal directions of the color space. In its present form, the algorithm would serve to simulate alterations both in the spectral sensitivities and in the contrast sensitivities of the visual mechanisms. RESULTS After a preliminary theoretical study on the effect of frequency selective and overall reductions in the contrast sensitivity function of a single mechanism, we present cases of real subjects with glaucoma and diabetes, suffering alterations of different magnitude in the three mechanisms. CONCLUSIONS The simulations allow us to learn about the different types of distortions that can be experienced by a subject with impaired contrast sensitivities (blur, haloes, color shifts, local or global contrast, brightness and colorfulness reductions, etc.) and highlight the difficulties arising when trying to predict the quality of the final image from the losses in the individual mechanisms.
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Accornero N, Gregori B, Pro S, Scappini G, La Riccia M. Chromatic modulation of luminance visual evoked potential latencies in healthy subjects and patients with mild vision disorders. Clin Neurophysiol 2008; 119:1683-8. [PMID: 18455475 DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2008.03.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2008] [Revised: 03/05/2008] [Accepted: 03/09/2008] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To study whether and how color modulates luminance visual evoked potentials (VEPs). METHODS We studied pattern-reversal luminance VEPs to red/black and blue/black checkerboards with identical luminance contrast values (mixed luminance and chromatic components) (isocontrast color VEP, in brief, IVEPs) in 25 healthy subjects and two groups of patients with mild vision disorders (23 with glaucoma and 25 with optic neuritis). We then compared these with the standard color VEPs to pure chromatic contrast red/green and blue/yellow gratings (CVEPs). RESULTS In healthy subjects, VEPs to red/black checkerboards and red/green gratings were slower than those obtained with blue/black checkerboards and blue/yellow gratings. Both procedures (IVEPs and CVEPs) differentiated patients with vision disorders from healthy subjects and distinguished between the two different vision disorders. Red/black checkerboards and red-green gratings elicited slower VEPs in patients with optic neuritis and blue/black checkerboards and blue/yellow gratings elicited slower VEPs in patients with glaucoma. IVEPs appeared more stable and ample than CVEPs. The contrast indices normalized CVEP and IVEP latencies in the same subject and showed a positive correlation between CVEP and IVEP latencies in healthy subjects and in patients with optic neuritis, but not in patients with glaucoma. CONCLUSIONS Our study confirms the usefulness of CVEPs in detecting and differentiating mild vision disorders. IVEPs to colored pattern-reversal luminance checkerboards are equally effective in distinguishing between various vision disorders possibly because colors can modulate VEP latencies to luminance contrast stimuli. SIGNIFICANCE IVEPs can be useful in differentiating the various vision disorders and are easier than CVEPs to test in a routine clinical setting.
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- N Accornero
- La Sapienza University, Department of Neurological Sciences, Viale Regina Elena 336, Rome, Italy.
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Shin YJ, Park KH, Hwang JM, Wee WR, Lee JH. A New Color Vision Test to Differentiate Congenital and Acquired Color Vision Defects. Ophthalmology 2007; 114:1341-7. [PMID: 17296231 DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2006.10.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2006] [Revised: 10/13/2006] [Accepted: 10/16/2006] [Indexed: 10/23/2022] Open
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PURPOSE To investigate the efficacy of a novel computer-controlled color test for the differentiation of congenital and acquired color vision deficiency. DESIGN Observational cross-sectional study. PARTICIPANTS Thirty-one patients with congenital color vision deficiency and 134 patients with acquired color vision deficiency with a Snellen visual acuity better than 20/30 underwent an ophthalmologic examination including the Ishihara color test, Hardy-Rand-Rittler test, Nagel anomaloscopy, and the Seohan computerized hue test between June, 2003, and January, 2004. METHODS To investigate the type of color vision defect, a graph of the Seohan computerized hue test was divided into 4 quadrants and error scores in each quadrant were summated. The ratio between the sums of error scores of quadrants I and III (Q1+Q3) and those of quadrants II and IV (Q2+Q4) was calculated. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Error scores and ratio in quadrant analysis of the Seohan computerized hue test. RESULTS The Seohan computerized hue test showed that the sum of Q2+Q4 was significantly higher than the sum of Q1+Q3 in congenital color vision deficiency (P<0.01, paired t test) and that the sum of Q2+Q4 was significantly lower than the sum of Q1+Q3 in acquired color vision deficiency (P<0.01, paired t test). In terms of discriminating congenital and acquired color vision deficiency, the ratio in quadrant analysis had 93.3% sensitivity and 98.5% specificity with a reference value of 1.5 by the Seohan computerized hue test (95% confidence interval). CONCLUSIONS The quadrant analysis and ratio of (Q2+Q4)/(Q1+Q3) using the Seohan computerized hue test effectively differentiated congenital and acquired color vision deficiency.
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- Young Joo Shin
- Department of Ophthalmology, Dongguk University College of Medicine, Dongguk University International Hospital, Dongguk, South Korea
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Pearson PM, Schmidt LA, Ly-Schroeder E, Swanson WH. Ganglion cell loss and age-related visual loss: a cortical pooling analysis. Optom Vis Sci 2006; 83:444-54. [PMID: 16840870 PMCID: PMC1636583 DOI: 10.1097/01.opx.0000218432.52508.10] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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PURPOSE To evaluate the ability of the cortical pooling model to predict the effects of random, mild ganglion cell loss, we compared the predictions of the model with the age-related loss and variability in achromatic and chromatic contrast sensitivity. METHODS The relative sensitivity to small (0.5 degrees ) and large (3.0 degrees ) stimuli was compared in older (mean = 67 years, n = 27) and younger (mean = 23 years, n = 32) adults. Contrast sensitivity for modulations along the luminance, equiluminant L-cone, and equiluminant S-cone axes was assessed at the fovea and at four peripheral locations (12 degrees ). RESULTS When the stimuli were large, threshold measurements obtained from all participants were reliable and well within the range of modulations along the chromatic axes that could be produced by the phosphors of the CRT. For the large stimuli, neither long- nor short-term variability increased as a function of age. Increasing the size of the stimulus did not decrease the magnitude of the age-related losses when the stimulus was chromatic, and visual losses observed with large chromatic stimuli were not different from those obtained with small achromatic stimuli. Moreover, chromatic contrast sensitivity assessments identified significant visual losses in four individuals who were not identified by achromatic contrast sensitivity assessments and only missed identifying one individual with significant losses in achromatic contrast sensitivity. CONCLUSIONS The declines in achromatic and chromatic sensitivity as a function of age (0.4-0.7 dB per decade) were similar to those obtained in previous studies of achromatic and chromatic perimetry and are consistent with the loss of retinal ganglion cells reported in histologic studies. The results of this study are consistent with the predictions the cortical pooling model makes for both variability and contrast sensitivity. These findings emphasize that selective visual impairments do not necessarily reflect preferential damage to a single ganglion cell class and that it is important to include the influence of higher cortical processing when quantifying the relation between ganglion cells and visual function.
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Zlatkova MB, Coulter EE, Anderson RS. The effect of simulated lens yellowing and opacification on blue-on-yellow acuity and contrast sensitivity. Vision Res 2006; 46:2432-42. [PMID: 16524612 DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2006.01.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2005] [Revised: 01/17/2006] [Accepted: 01/26/2006] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Short-wavelength-sensitive (SWS) resolution acuity has been reported to be limited by the density of the responding ganglion cells for people without appreciable age-related lenticular change. This study measured the robustness of SWS-cone acuity and contrast sensitivity (CS) to simulated lens yellowing and opacification. Resolution acuity at 8 deg eccentricity proved robust to significant amounts of yellowing and remained lower than detection acuity, indicating that the resolution continued to be limited by ganglion cell density. Both the detection and resolution CS functions were affected by simulated lens yellowing, except for resolution close to the CS cut-off. For simulated opacification, only dense opacity significantly affected performance. SWS resolution acuity and CS close to the resolution limit are resistant to moderate simulated age-related lens changes and continue to be mediated by the density of the responding ganglion cells, indicating important clinical potential to measure SWS neural losses of vision in older subjects.
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- Margarita B Zlatkova
- Vision Science Research Group, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Ulster at Coleraine, Coleraine, UK.
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For forensic purposes, the presence of the colour yellow in a bruise may be regarded as indicating it is not recent. However, a previous study has shown that observers may disagree in their description of the colours in a bruise. This study was designed to determine how consistent observers are in perceiving the presence of yellow. Subjects were shown a series of photographs of a bruise that had been digitally modified (Adobe Photoshop) to contain amounts of yellow that increased from 2% to 20%. The point at which subjects first perceived the colour yellow was recorded. The perception threshold for yellow ranged from 4% to 16% (mean=8.7%, median=8%) in the 50 subjects that had normal colour vision. Statistical analysis indicated that an individual's yellow perception threshold increased by 0.07% each year, but gender had no effect. The results reveal that there is variability in the perception threshold for yellow in the general population and that a subject's ability to perceive yellow in a bruise declines with age.
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Alcalá-Quintana R, García-Perez MA. The role of parametric assumptions in adaptive Bayesian estimation. Psychol Methods 2004; 9:250-71. [PMID: 15137892 DOI: 10.1037/1082-989x.9.2.250] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Variants of adaptive Bayesian procedures for estimating the 5% point on a psychometric function were studied by simulation. Bias and standard error were the criteria to evaluate performance. The results indicated a superiority of (a) uniform priors, (b) model likelihood functions that are odd symmetric about threshold and that have parameter values larger than their counterparts in the psychometric function, (c) stimulus placement at the prior mean, and (d) estimates defined as the posterior mean. Unbiasedness arises in only 10 trials, and 20 trials ensure constant standard errors. The standard error of the estimates equals 0.617 times the inverse of the square root of the number of trials. Other variants yielded bias and larger standard errors.
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- Rocío Alcalá-Quintana
- Departamento de Metodología, Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain
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Tong J, Wang J, Sun F. Dual-directional optokinetic nystagmus elicited by the intermittent display of gratings in primary open-angle glaucoma and normal eyes. Curr Eye Res 2002; 25:355-62. [PMID: 12789542 DOI: 10.1076/ceyr.25.6.355.14236] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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PURPOSE To compare optokinetic nystagmus (OKN) responses to the intermittent display of stimuli between normal subjects and patients with primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG). METHODS Optokinetic nystagmus (OKN) was recorded in 9 glaucomatous patients and 7 normal subjects. The computer-generated stimuli displayed sinusoidal luminance gratings (16 cd/m(2) mean luminance, 0.5 cyc/deg) with a pi/2 phase shift between successive stimulus gratings. These stimulus gratings were separated by an interstimulus interval (ISI), during which a homogeneous luminance field of 16 cd/m(2) was presented. The ISI duration and the luminance contrast were set at different values. RESULTS For normal subjects, dual-directional alternating OKN could be evoked in the ISI range from 33 to 100 ms. The dual-directional alternating OKN was defined as that OKN slow phase alternatively tracked in the direction of pi/2 shift (forward OKN) and against the pi/2 shift (reverse OKN). By contrast, for most glaucomatous eyes, nearly no reverse OKN could be evoked at any ISI value. CONCLUSIONS The lack of reverse OKN in POAG patients in the present experiments is a meaningful finding. The occurrence of reverse OKN during a certain range of ISI duration could be related to the biphasic characteristics of the temporal impulse response in normal subjects, whereas, the lack of reverse OKN might suggest the plausible damage of magnocellular cells in POAG.
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- Jianliang Tong
- Laboratory of Neurobiology of Shanghai Institute of Physiology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
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Alcalá A, Morell M, Rius F. [Comparative study of the impact of diet versus pravastatin on color vision in Brodman area 19 detected by computerized chromatic analysis (CARDIOCOLOUR Study)]. Rev Esp Cardiol 2002; 55:1243-50. [PMID: 12459073 DOI: 10.1016/s0300-8932(02)76796-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES Hypercholesterolemia causes important neurodegenerative changes in the cerebral cortex, which are manifested by defects in the color perception by the neurons of Brodman area 19. Extensive interventional epidemiological data from both primary and secondary-prevention clinical trials indicate that cardiac ischemic events decrease when total cholesterol or LDL-C is reduced. Our goal was to elucidate the effects of diet compared with a 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A (HMG-CoA) reductase inhibitor (pravastatin) on color perception using computerized chromatic analysis (CCA) and plasma cholesterol levels. PATIENTS AND METHODS We studied 191 normotensive patients (133 men and 58 women) with pre-study plasma cholesterol levels in excess of 200 mg/dl. Seventy of these patients were treated with the American Heart Association Step II diet for six months. The remaining 121 were treated with pravastatin, 61 patients with 10 mg and 60 patients with 40 mg. They were examined by CCA after excluding any general or ophthalmological pathology. RESULTS Chromatic vision recovered by 23% with diet, 38% with pravastatin 10 mg and 92% with pravastatin 40 mg. CONCLUSIONS This study confirmed a strong association between therapeutic intervention with either diet or pravastatin and improved color vision.
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- Antonio Alcalá
- Departamento de Bioquímica Clínica y Biología Molecular. Facultad de Medicina. Universidad de Málaga. España.
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Alcalá A, Morell M, Rius F. [Chromatic computerized analysis is an early predictor of cardiovascular risk associated to hypercholesterolemia]. Rev Esp Cardiol 2001; 54:1417-25. [PMID: 11754788 DOI: 10.1016/s0300-8932(01)76525-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES Early detection of cardiovascular disease is a major goal of contemporary medicine in efforts to prevent coronary heart disease. The goal of this study was to look for a number of changes that could be detected in the neurons of the 19 Brodman area by means of chromatic computerized analysis (CCA) as a consequence of a neurobiological dysfunction, which induced a failure in the chromatic perception, which, in turn, expressed the existence of hypercholesterolemia through numeric qualification and therefore, a cardiovascular risk. PATIENTS AND METHOD . We studied 208 patients (Group 1) (153 men and 55 women) with pre-study plasma cholesterol levels in excess of 200 mg/dl. The control group (Group 2) also consisted of 208 subjects (153 men and 55 women) but with a cholesterol level below 200 mg/dl. They were performed by CCA, previously ruling out any systemic or ophthalmological pathology. RESULTS All global indexes were highly correlated in both groups. The direct relation between cholesterol levels and 19 area, reached a canonical correlation of 0.825 with a sensitivity of 90% and especifity of 93%. The results of the multiple regression taking total cholesterol as a dependent variable and the most significative parameter of CCA, as an independent variable was R = 0.89 (p < 0.001), with a test variability of 81%. CONCLUSIONS This study determines a strong association between hypercholesterolemia and the visual areas of the cerebral cortex.
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- A Alcalá
- Departamento de Bioquímica Clínica y Biología Molecular, Spain.
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Pearson P, Swanson WH, Fellman RL. Chromatic and achromatic defects in patients with progressing glaucoma. Vision Res 2001; 41:1215-27. [PMID: 11292509 DOI: 10.1016/s0042-6989(00)00311-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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To evaluate the pattern of losses associated with glaucomatous injury in patients with progressing glaucoma, functional losses were examined in 14 patients with progressing glaucoma using tests for which detection should be selectively mediated by one of three psychophysical mechanisms. Red-on-white increments, blue-on-white increments and critical flicker frequency were used to isolate the responses of the red-green chromatic mechanism, the blue-on chromatic mechanism, and the high-frequency flicker achromatic mechanism. For our 3.1 degrees circular stimuli, chromatic defects were found in a greater number of the patients with glaucoma than were achromatic defects. We evaluated these defects in terms of two existing hypotheses: preferential loss and reduced redundancy. The greater sensitivity to glaucomatous injury of chromatic tests, compared to achromatic tests, found in this and other studies and the apparent discrepancy between anatomical and psychophysical studies can be parsimoniously explained by differences in cortical summation of ganglion cell responses for the chromatic and achromatic pathways.
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- P Pearson
- Retina Foundation of the Southwest, Dallas, TX 75231, USA
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BACKGROUND The normal optic nerve head varies from one person to another, and there is often intraindividual variation as well. Factors such as race and age play an important role in distinguishing what may be considered normal variations in optic nerve head appearance. METHODS A literature search and review of the latest studies on the optic nerve head was conducted. RESULTS Results of recent studies showed that variations in the average cup-to-disc ratio exist for different races, and with age there is a gradual loss of nerve fibers leading to an overall increase in the cup-to-disc ratio. There is also evidence that congenitally larger optic nerves have larger cup-to-disc ratios and more nerve fibers. Smaller optic nerves, in contrast, have smaller cup-to-disc ratios and fewer nerve fibers. These findings are presented along with sample photographs depicting the normal variations in optic nerve head appearance. CONCLUSION Over the past 30 years, technology has allowed for changing views about what may be considered normal in reference to the optic nerve head. This information is valuable to the eye care practitioner in helping to make appropriate patient care management decisions.
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- N M Sing
- VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Sepulveda Ambulatory Care Center & Nursing Home, California, USA.
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Pearson PM, Swanson WH. Chromatic contrast sensitivity: the role of absolute threshold and gain constant in differences between the fovea and the periphery. JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA. A, OPTICS, IMAGE SCIENCE, AND VISION 2000; 17:232-243. [PMID: 10680625 DOI: 10.1364/josaa.17.000232] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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A model of foveal achromatic and chromatic sensitivity [Vision Res. 36, 1597 (1996)] was extended to the peripheral visual field. Threshold-versus-illuminance functions were analyzed to determine effects of eccentricity on absolute thresholds and gain constants of chromatic and luminance mechanisms. The resulting peripheral model successfully predicted peripheral contrast sensitivity as a function of wavelength, for both white and 500-nm backgrounds. We conclude that the short-wavelength-sensitive cone opponent mechanism may mediate thresholds in Sloan's notch in the normal periphery and that interpretation of reduced chromatic sensitivity in the periphery requires an explicit model of how eccentricity affects both the gain constant and the absolute threshold.
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- P M Pearson
- Retina Foundation of the Southwest, Dallas, Texas 75231, USA.
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Pacheco-Cutillas M, Edgar DF, Sahraie A. Acquired colour vision defects in glaucoma-their detection and clinical significance. Br J Ophthalmol 1999; 83:1396-402. [PMID: 10574822 PMCID: PMC1722892 DOI: 10.1136/bjo.83.12.1396] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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- M Pacheco-Cutillas
- AVRC, Department of Optometry and Visual Science, City University, Northampton Square, London EC1V 0HB
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