BTBV0231c Binocular Vision I - practice

Faculty of Medicine
spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
0/0/2. 1 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Bc. Barbora Čáslavská (seminar tutor)
MUDr. Kristina Pavézková Vodičková, Ph.D., FEBO (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
MUDr. Miroslav Dostálek, Ph.D.
Department of Optometry and Orthoptics – Departments of Non-medical Branches – Faculty of Medicine
Contact Person: Lenka Herníková
Supplier department: Department of Optometry and Orthoptics – Departments of Non-medical Branches – Faculty of Medicine
Prerequisites
BTFO0111c Physiological optics – p && BOAF0131p Eye's anatomy and physiology I
The course is designed for students of corresponding fields.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Practical training of knowledge from the Course Binocular vision I - lecture.
Learning outcomes
After this practical course, student will be able to define a term single binocular vision (SBV) and will be able to desctibe it's advantages. Student will know the components of SBV vision. Student will be introduced to the anatomy and physiology of the projection component of the SBV. He or she will know basic terminology and understand the principles of related processes: visual direction, retinal correspondence, horopter, Panum space, receptive field, magnocellular and parvocellular patway, etc. Student will be introduced to the anatomy and physiology of the analytical and association components of the SBV. He or she will know basic terminology and understand the principles of related processes: primary visual cortex, higher visual cortex, magnocellular and parvocellular pathway, dorsal and ventral stream, monocular dominance columns, isoorientational columns, fusion on the first binocular neuron, disparity signal, blur signal, proximity signal, etc. Student will be introduced to the anatomy and physiology of the motoric component of the SBV. He or she will know basic terminology and understand the principles of related processes: duction, vesrsion, vergence, dual-interactive model of vergence-accommodation synkinesys, etc. He or she will also know the factors that affect the correct development of SBV. Student will be introduced to the general patophysiology of SBV defects such as suppression and anomalous retinal correspondence and understand sensorial adaptation and sensorial learning.
Syllabus
  • Complex multilevel nature of fusion (introduction, division, ...).
  • Sensory arm of fusion (subjective visual direction, retinal correspondence, physiological diplopia, functional neuroanatomy of visual pathway and V1, convergence of the corresponding signals, first binocular neuron, receptive fields, …).
  • Motor compnent of the fusion (duction, version, vergence, Shering´s , Hering´s , Listing´s law, neural control of saccades and vergencies, fixation disparity, …).
  • Analytical and psychogenic component of fusion (harmony conflict and disparity of corresponding signals, detection and processing of disparity signal and blur signal, Panum´s fusional area, monocular and binocular stereopsis, vergence - accommodation synkinesis, relative accommodation, relative vergence, monocular dominant column of V1, detection of edges and contrast, dorsal and ventral stream, unimodal, polymodal, supramodal, gnostic areas, ...).
  • Binocular vision development (prestereopsis, development of the fusion’s components), sensorial adaptation and perceptual larning...
Literature
    required literature
  • HROMÁDKOVÁ, Lada. Šilhání. 2. dopl. vyd. Brno: Institut pro další vzdělávání pracovníků ve zdravotnictví v Brně, 1995, 162 s. ISBN 8070132078. info
  • DIVIŠOVÁ, Gabriela. Strabismus. Vyd. 1. Praha: Avicenum, zdravotnické nakladatelství, 1979, 295 s. info
    recommended literature
  • Campos, E.C. von Noorden: Binocular vision and ocular motility, Theory and Management of Strabismus, 6th edition, Mosby, St. Louis, 2002
  • Ciuffreda, K.J., Tannen, B.: Eye Movement Basics for the Clinician, Mosby, St. Louis, 1995
  • Evans, B.J.: Pickwell's Binocular Vision Anomalies, 5th edition, Butterworth Heinemann Elsevier, Edinburgh, 2007
  • Steinman, S.B., Steinman, B.A., Garzia, R.P.: Foundations of Binocular Vision, McGraw-Hill Companies, New York, 2000
  • Stidwill, D., Fletcher, R.: Normal Binocular Vision, Theory, Investigation and Practical Aspects, Willey-Blackwell, Chichester, 2011
Teaching methods
practice
Assessment methods
Credit: for granting credit, student must fulfill all three following requirements: (1) personally participate in min. 5 class exercises, (2) elaboration of the (semestral) seminary thesis, and (3) oral presentation of the (semestra) seminary thesis.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 30.
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, spring 2019, spring 2020, spring 2021, spring 2022, spring 2023, spring 2024.
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