Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
Book cover

Presbyopia Research

From Molecular Biology to Visual Adaptation

  • Book
  • © 1991

Overview

Editors:
  1. Gérard Obrecht

    1. Essilor, Creteil, France

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  2. Lawrence W. Stark

    1. University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, USA

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

Part of the book series: Perspectives in Vision Research (PIVR)

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 129.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (30 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
    Download chapter PDF

  2. Molecular Biology of the Lens: New Approaches in Lens Development and Aging

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-4
      Download chapter PDF

    2. Transcriptional Control of the α-Crystallin Gene Family

      • Ana B. Chepelinsky, Eric F. Wawrousek, Robert A. Dubin, Cynthia J. Jaworski, Joan B. McDermott, Joram Piatigorsky
      Pages 5-12

    3. Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms of Lens Growth Control during Development and Aging

      • Y. Courtois, C. Arruti, P. R. Blanquet, J. C. Jeanny, F. Mascarelli, J. Treton
      Pages 13-20

    4. Differentiation Patterns in Eye Lens Fibers

      • Ennio Lucio Benedetti, Irène Dunia
      Pages 21-31

    5. Lens Calcium and Cataract

      • George Duncan, Julia M. Marcantonio, Julie Tomlinson
      Pages 33-40

    6. Molecular Interactions of Crystallins in Relation to Optical Properties

      • C. Slingsby, B. Bax, R. Lapatto, O. A. Bateman, H. Driessen, P. F. Lindley et al.
      Pages 41-48

    7. Biophysical Analysis of Eye Lens Transparency

      • Annette Tardieu, Françoise Vérétout
      Pages 49-55

    8. Nonenzymic Posttranslational Modification of Lens Proteins in Aging

      • John J. Harding
      Pages 57-60

    9. Lenticular Senescence and the Retina

      • Robert Weale
      Pages 61-65

  3. Visuomotor Adaptation and Gaze Adaptation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 69-72
      Download chapter PDF

    2. Adaptations to Transformations of the Optic Array

      • Ian P. Howard
      Pages 73-81

    3. Adaptation to Anamorphosing Lenses: Perceptive Responses and Visuomotor Coordination

      • Valérie Cornilleau-Peres, Jacques Droulez
      Pages 83-91

    4. Adaptive Control of Saccade Metrics

      • Heiner Deubel
      Pages 93-100

    5. Short-Term and Long-Term Adaptative Changes in Eye—Head Movement Coordination Resulting from Reduced Peripheral Vision

      • G. M. Gauthier, J. L. Semmlow, J. L. Vercher, C. Pedrono, G. Obrecht
      Pages 101-111

    6. The Disruptive Effects of Optical Aids on Retinal Image Stability during Head Movements

      • Frederick A. Miles
      Pages 113-125

    7. Neurophysiology of Vergence and Accommodation

      • Stuart J. Judge
      Pages 127-137

    8. Oculomotor Adaptation to Induced Vergence Demands

      • David B. Henson
      Pages 139-145

    9. Adaptive Regulation of Accommodative Vergence Interactions

      • Clifton Schor
      Pages 147-164

  4. Mechanisms for Separating Superimposed Images

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 167-169
      Download chapter PDF
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

Seeing is life. Seeing is transfonning luminous col­ We wish to extend our academic and theoretical ored stimulations and shapes into amental represen­ knowledge and also to complete and exchange our tation, structured in space and in time. But seeing is technical and professional experience to prepare also opening onto the world that surrounds us: it is corrective means for the future. thus a means for communicating and learning. Numerous questions have yet to be answered, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, a philosopher worth such as: quoting during the bicentennial of the French Revo­ lution of which he was an instigator, stated, "of all • Will it one day be possible to defer or stop the the senses, vision is that wh ich can be the least aging of the accommodative apparatus? readily separated from judgments of the mind. " • Is further improvement of the current corrective Sight is increasingly called on in our modern means possible, whether spectacles or contact world. Maturity is affected at about 40-45 years by lenses? the on set of presbyopia. Atthat age, which demands • How are behavioral and psychological presbyope all our intellectual and physical means, our sight typologies to be integrated in the course of exam­ should be irreproachable. Our efficiency must not be ination, prescription, and fitting with corrective diminished.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Essilor, Creteil, France

    Gérard Obrecht

  • University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, USA

    Lawrence W. Stark

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Presbyopia Research

  • Book Subtitle: From Molecular Biology to Visual Adaptation

  • Editors: Gérard Obrecht, Lawrence W. Stark

  • Series Title: Perspectives in Vision Research

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2131-7

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1991

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-43659-8Published: 31 August 1991

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-3217-4Published: 09 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4757-2131-7Published: 29 June 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 301

  • Topics: Ophthalmology, Animal Physiology, Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics, Neurosciences

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation