RT Book, Section
A1 Zhang, Kevin X.
A1 Shah, Veeral S.
A2 Hershey, Andrew D.
SR Print(0)
ID 1195238031
T1 Approach to Pediatric Vision Disorders
T2 CURRENT Diagnosis & Treatment Pediatric Neurology
YR 2023
FD 2023
PB McGraw Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781260457520
LK accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1195238031
RD 2024/04/23
AB At  their  core,  human  beings  are  visual  beings,  and  this  is  evidenced  by  the  fact  that  most  of  the  human  brain  is  devoted  to  the  visual  system.  The  visual  sensory  or  afferent  pathways  not  only  include  the  retina,  optic  nerve,  chiasm,  optic  tract,  lateral  geniculate  nucleus,  optic  radiations,  and  primary  visual  cortex,  but  also  the  parietal  and  temporal  lobes,  which  are  involved  in  processing  visual  information  to  produce  a  rich  and  vibrant  sensory  experience.  The  motor  or  efferent  visual  system,  which  directs  eye  movement  to  optimize  target-specific  viewing  of  the  object  of  interest  and  capture  visual  information,  requires  extraocular  muscles,  cranial  nerves,  and  their  nuclei,  which  are  found  in  the  midbrain,  pons,  and  brainstem.  However,  they  also  require  the  supranuclear  network  found  in  the  frontal  eye  fields,  parietal  lobe,  supplementary  eye  fields,  superior  colliculus,  basal  ganglia,  and  reticular  formation.