Sensory visual system information processing with emphasis on the application of visual physiology and neural networks to development of new clinical visual tests.
We are studying visual processing throughout the visual field using various static and moving (random dot motion) stimuli. We use both the subject's manual response to sensing stimuli and their eye movements to the stimulus as outcome measures. We are also using the multifocal visual evoked response as an objective measure of visual function. We are interested in studying both changes related to age and pathology of the sensory visual system. Our goals are to understand mechanisms of visual processing in health and disease and develop new and more sensitive methods of testing vision.
Current Projects:
Development of motion perimetry and eye movement motion perimetry.
Early detection of visual field loss in glaucoma and idiopathic intracranial hypertension.
Testing of patients with optic nerve disease to separate damage from different retinal ganglion cell subsystems.
Visual field correlates of driving performance.
Treatment of optic neuritis (Optic Neuritis Study Group).
Studies of perimetric variability in in glaucoma, optic neuritis and idiopathic intracranial hypertension.
Treatment of idiopathic intracranial hypertension (pseudotumor cerebri)