- Docente: Emilio Campos
- Credits: 3
- SSD: MED/50
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Orthoptics and Assistance in Ophthalmology (for certified professional orthoptists and assistants in ophthalmology) (cod. 0163)
Learning outcomes
To acquire experience with diagnostic procedures used for defining clinical pictures of anomalies of ocular motility.
Course contents
Steps of development and plasticity of the visual system: visual acuity, fixafion reflex, stereopsis.
Pathophysiology: changes in teh visual cortex, lateral geniculate nucleus, retina.
Diagnosis: techniques of direct and indirect diagnosis.
Preventive measures:incidence, prevalence, screening techniques.
Readings/Bibliography
Campos E.C. - "Strabismo: manuale di diagnosi e terapia" - Ed. Bononia University Press, 2003.
Assessment methods
Oral examination
Office hours
See the website of Emilio Campos