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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Vision
    sub title: how it works and what can go wrong
  name:
    name part: Dowling, John E.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Dowling, Joseph L.
    name part: Jr
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    date issued: 2016
    copyright date: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xx, 204 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: "Over the past fifty years, enormous progress has been made in understanding visual mechanisms and treating eye disorders. And yet the scientist is not always aware of the latest clinical advances and the clinician is often not up to date on the basic scientific discoveries. Writing in nontechnical language, John and Joseph Dowling, a neuroscientist and an ophthalmologist, examine vision from both perspectives, providing concise descriptions of basic visual mechanisms and related clinical abnormalities. Thus, an account of the photoreceptors is followed by a consideration of retinitis pigmentosa and macular degeneration; an explanation of the retina's function is followed by details of glaucoma and diabetic retinopathy. The authors begin with the cornea and lens, which project an image on the light-sensitive elements inside the eye, the photoreceptors, and how that process can be compromised by such disorders as cataracts and corneal disease. They go on to describe, among other things, how the photoreceptors capture light; retinal and visual cortical anatomy and physiology; and higher level visual processing that leads to perception. Cortical disorders such as amblyopia are discussed as well as specific deficits such as the inability to recognize faces, colors, or moving objects. Finally, they survey the evolution of our knowledge of vision, and speculate about future advances"--MIT CogNet.
  note: John E. Dowling and Joseph L. Dowling, Jr.
  subject:
    topic: Vision
    genre: Popular works
  subject:
    topic: Eye
    topic: Physiology
    genre: Popular works
  subject:
    topic: Ophthalmology
    genre: Popular works
  subject:
    topic: Eye
    topic: Diseases
    genre: Popular works
  subject:
    topic: NEUROSCIENCE/Visual Neuroscience
  subject:
    topic: NEUROSCIENCE/General
  subject:
    topic: BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES/General
  classification: QP475.5 .D69 2016
  classification: 612.8/4
  identifier: 9780262333566
  identifier: 0262333562
  identifier: 9780262034616
  identifier: 0262034611
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: OCoLC-P
    record creation date: 160309
    record change date: 20221121162651.3
    record identifier: in00004602541
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng