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Classification and diversity of amblyopia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2018

DAPHNE MAURER  and
SUZANNE P. McKEE
DAPHNE MAURER*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behavior, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
SUZANNE P. McKEE
Affiliation:
Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, San Francisco, California
*
*Address correspondence to: Dr. Daphne Maurer, Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON L8S 4K1 Canada. E-mail: mcmaster@maurer.ca
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Abstract

Amblyopia is a developmental disorder that affects the spatial vision of one or both eyes in the absence of an obvious organic cause; it is associated with a history of abnormal visual experience during childhood. Subtypes have been defined based on the purported etiology, namely, strabismus (misaligned eyes) and/or anisometropia (unequal refractive error). Here we consider the usefulness of these subclassifications.

Keywords

StrabismusAnisometropiaAcuityContrast sensitivityBinocularity
Type
Perspective
Information
Visual Neuroscience , Volume 35 , 2018 , E012
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2018 

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