Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences

  • Research Interest Summaries

    Randy Kardon

    • Relationship of visual dysfunction to pupillomotor responsiveness to light
    • Pharmacology of the central and peripheral pupillomotor pathways
    • Autonomic disorders of pupillary function
    • Risk factors in the pathogenesis of optic nerve diseases
    • Multifocal electroretinogram in diagnosing visual loss
    • Correlation of structure and function of the visual system
    • Studies of the dynamics of the blood flow to the choroid and retina
    • Optical imaging of retinal function

    Michael Wall

    • Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension: Etiology and Treatment
    • Mechanisms of perimetric variability
    • Use of large sized perimetric stimuli
    • New perimetric techniques
    • Sensory visual system information processing with emphasis on the application of visual physiology and neural networks to development of new clinical visual tests.

    Reid Longmuir

    • Optic Nerve Hypoplasia
    • Glaucoma
    • Visual Field Testing
    • Visual Field Reading Center for multicenter clinical trials

    Steve Stasheff

    • Fundamental physiologic mechanisms of neurologic diseases affecting the visual system
    • The role that central nervous system (CNS) plasticity may play in both the pathogenesis and potential treatments for neurologic diseases affecting the visual system.
    • Ongoing investigations aim to better understand electrophysiologic changes that occur in hereditary retinal degeneration, a central feature of many neurodegenerative disorders in children and adults, including those that cause severe mental retardation, motor disability, and seizures.

    Matthew Thurtell

    • Eye-movement disorders and their treatment
    • Eye movement kinematics
    • Clinical neuro-ophthalmology
    • Clinical neuro-otology

    Chris Johnson

    • Perimetry, Visual Field Testing and Psychophysical Evaluation of Glaucoma and Retinal Diseases
    • Development of Automated Diagnostic Test Procedures
    • Imaging and Topography of the Optic Nerve Head and Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer
    • Visual Factors Related to Task Performance in Transportation/Aviation & Industry
    • Motion and Flicker Perception
    • Visual Field Reading Center for multicenter clinical trials