It was a record year for IN-vision’s Great Cake Sale at the International Wine Challenge held in April, raising over £1,100! We are extremely grateful to everyone who took part, from the IWC for hosting the event, to the judges …
Read more >>A review has been published in the Journal of Neurology providing an up-to-date summary of pharmacological treatments for ocular motor and vestibular disorders. The review can be found here.
Read more >>Tai, Hertle, Bilonick and Yang have developed a new algorithm to be used for the assessment of nystagmus acuity. It is known as ‘automated nystagmus acuity function’ (ANAF), and has been shown to be similar in its accuracy to NAFX. …
Read more >>A review article has been published in Deutsches Ärzteblatt International which will be of interest to clinicians. It reviews current treatments, clinical characteristics and pathophysiology of nystagmus and oculomotor disorders. The article is available here.
Read more >>Avery Weiss, John Kelly and James Phillips have found macular hypoplasia to be the limiting factor of visual acuity, rather than slow-phase image motion in albinism-linked INS. The expected image degradation caused by motion was calculated using dynamic visual acuity …
Read more >>Chung, LaFrance and Bedell have simulated nystagmus waveforms in normals with varying foveation periods to vicariously assess the impact of foveation durations on visual acuity. This, compared to a paradigm in which vision was only permitted during the simulated foveation …
Read more >>Richard Hertle's team have published surgical outcomes in 24 patients using techniques to reduce vertical head postures in infantile nystagmus. See the article here.
Read more >>Leicester-based research due to be published in Brain has shown that mutations in the FRMD7 gene can cause idiopathic periodic alternating nystagmus (PAN). The team suggest that PAN could be the result of unstable optokinetic and vestibular systems. Click here …
Read more >>Thurtell and Leigh recently published a review article providing an up-to-date summary of the current therapies available for all forms of nystagmus in the Journal of Neuroophthalmology. The article can be found on PubMed.
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