VS 217: OCULOMOTOR
FUNCTIONS AND NEUROLOGY
Spring,
2008
Instructor: Dr.
Clifton Schor
512 Minor
Hall West, 642-1130
Office
hours: TBA.
http://schorlab.berkeley.edu
schor@socrates.berkeley.edu
GSIs: Jamie O’Shea
505 Minor
Hall West, 642-7679
Office
hours: TBA
jamesmun@calmail.berkeley.edu
Michael Oliver
407 Minor
Hall, 643-0507
Office
hours: TBA.
Aleks Polosukhina
407 Minor Hall, 643-0507
Office
hours: TBA.
Lecture:
Tuesday:
Labs:
Friday: 8-10am 395 Minor East
beginning January 20
(sect. 101),
COURSE GOALS:
Introduce the role of eye movements
in optometric primary care.
Binocular eye coordination and
interactions with accommodation .
Oculomotor manifestations of CNS
disorders.
REQUIREMENTS:
•
one midterm exam (February 14)
•
one non-comprehensive final exam (March 13)
• 2
quizzes (- Jan 29 and Feb 28)
•
three lab reports (each due one week after the lab)
GRADING:
The final grade will be
approximately 2/5 of the midterm exam, 2/5 of the
final exam, and 1/5 of the quizzes. Two
short 10 min quizzes.
Lab reports must be completed to pass
the course
and they are evaluated pass/not-pass. If
a lab is evaluated as not-pass, it must be rewritten.
Lab material will be included on the exams.
REQUIRED
VS117 Reader: available in hard copy
and also access on the following website
click on courses, click
on 117 class page, name: VS117, password: Hering,1
Website contains
handouts, finals, midterms, coop notes, quizzes and reader
SUGGESTED
Adler's
Physiology of the Eye, 10 th edition and new preprinted version
(on
Class Page website)
Leigh
and Zee, Neurology of Eye Movements.
Borish,
Clinical Refraction
Carpenter,
RHS. Movement of the Eyes.
Carpenter,
RHS, Ed. Eye Movements: Volume 8 in
Vision and Vision Dysfunction.
Davson,
The Eye, Vol 3
Grisham D. Management of nystagmus in
young
children
in
Problems in Optometry Vol 2,
Number 3, September 1990.
Eds
Scheiman and
Ogle,
Martens, and Dyer, Binocular Oculomotor Imbalance.
Rosenbloom
and Morgan, Principals and practice of pediatric optometry.
Schor
and Ciuffreda, Eds. Binocular Vision: Basic and Clinical Aspects.
Ciuffreda
and Tannen, Eye Movement Basics for the Clinician, Mosby, 1995
LABS:
IV. Monocular accommodation stimulus
response function
V. Accommodative convergence
VII. Fixation Disparity
SCHEDULE OF LECTURES AND LABS:
January 22 Lecture 1
Chapter 16 Accommodation and Presbyopia
January
24 Lecture 2
Chapter 17 and 18 Maddox components and
accuracy
of accommodation
January 25 Friday Lab exercise #1
Accommodative response function (Lab IV in Reader)
January
29 Lecture 3, Quiz 1
Chapter 19 Vergence Eye Movements
January
31 Lecture 4
Chapter 20 Accommodative vergence
cross-links
February 1 Friday Lab exercise #2 Maddox
components of accom (Lab V in Reader)
February 5 Lecture 5
Chapter 21 Fixation disparity
February
7 Lecture 6
Chapter 22 Graphical Analysis
February 8 Friday Lab
exercise #3 Fixation Disparity (Lab VII in Reader)
February
12 Lecture 7
Chapter 1 & 2 and New Adler’s
Physiol Chapter on Website
Laws regulating oculomotor control
Three Functional Classes of Eye
movements
Hierarchy of Oculomotor control
February
14 Midterm (material covered over first 6 lectures)
Chapter 5 and 7 Final
common Pathway
orbital
mechanics (muscle geometry and description of eye position)
cranial nerves (III, IV & VI)
Motor neuron
response (recruitment and firing rate)
February
21 Lecture 9
Chapters 8 and 9. Pre-motor nuclei
MLF
and premotor neurons
February 26
Lecture 10 Chapters
5, and 9 Muscle palsies (strabismus) & gaze palsies
February
28 Lecture 11 Quiz 2
Chapter 13 Gaze stabilization reflexes
OKN, VOR
Chapter 14 Saccadic gaze
shifts and disorders
March
4 Lecture 12
Chapter12 and 15 Foveal Fixation and
Pursuits
Chapter 11Nystagmus- normal and
anomalous
March 11
Review
March
13 Final Examination