I. Ocular and neurologic examinations
Goals:
1. Diagnose and evaluate patients with optic nerve diseases.
Topics:
1. Ischemic optic neuropathy(1)
- Anterior
- Posterior
- Diabetic papillopathy
2. Inflammation(1)
- Non infectious
- Infectious
3. Compression / Infiltration(1)
4. Paraneoplastic(2)
5. Traumatic(1)
6. Toxic(1)
7. Nutritional(1)
8. Metabolic(1)
9. Hereditary(1)
10. Congenital(1)
11. Glaucoma(3)
- Classification of glaucoma
- Evaluation and basic management of glaucoma
12. Raised intracranial pressure (papilledema)(1)
II. Orbital pathology causing neuro-ophthalmic manifestations
Goals:
1. Diagnose and evaluate patients with orbital diseases.
Topics:
1. Trauma(1)
2. Mass lesions(1)
- Neoplasms
- Thyroid orbitopathy
3. Orbital inflammation(1)
4. Infection(1)
- Orbital cellulitis
- Abcess
III. Diseases of the chiasm
Goals:
1. Diagnose and evaluate patients with chiasmal disorders
Topics:
1. Chiasmal visual field defects(1)
2. Compression/infiltration(1)
3. Inflammation(1)
4. Trauma(1)
5. Ischemia/hemorrhage(1)
IV. Diseases of the retrochiasmal visual pathways
Goals:
1. Diagnose and evaluate patients with lesions of the retrochiasmal visual pathways
Topics:
1. Optic tract(1)
2. Lateral geniculate(1)
3. Radiations(1)
4. Calcarine cortex(1)
5. Association areas(2)
6. Specialized syndromes
- Anton's syndrome (cerebral blindness)(1)
- Riddoch's phenomena: Statico-kinetic dissociation(2)
- Balint syndrome(2)
- Gerstmann syndrome(2)
- Cerebral achromatopsia(2)
- Alexia without agraphia(2)
- Acalculia(3)
- Agraphia (with associated alexia)(2)
- Agnosias(2)
- Visual neglect(2)
- L-R confusion(3)
- Akinetopsia(3)
- Concept of "Blindsight"(3)
V. Pupillary pathology
Goals:
1. Diagnose and evaluate patients with abnormal pupillary reactions
Topics:
1. Normal pupillary responses(1)
2. Effects of drugs on the pupils(1)
3. Congenital pupillary abnormalities(2)
- Coloboma
- Congenital iris strands (embryonic pupillary membrane)
- Anterior cleavage syndromes
- ICE syndrome (iridocorneal-endothelial adhesion syndrome)
- Ectopic pupil
4. Pupillary changes secondary to ocular diseases(1)
- Traumatic, foreign body
- Inflammation
- Neovascularisation
- Ocular surgery, laser
5. Traumatic pupillary changes(1)
6. Evaluation and management of anisocoria(1)
7. Evaluation and management of a large or a small pupil(1)
8. Evaluation and management of specific pupillary disorders(1):
- Tadpole pupil(2)
- Argyll-Robertson pupil(1)
- Correctopia(2)
- Physiologic anisocoria(1)
- Horner's syndrome(1)
- Third nerve palsy(1)
- Afferent pupillary defect(1)
- Light near dissociation(1)
VI. Eye movement systems pathology
Goals:
1. Diagnose and evaluate patients with abnormal eye movements.
Topics:
1.Vestibular ocular system(2)
2.Optokinetic nystagmus(2)
3.Saccades(2)
4.Pursuit(2)
5.Convergence(2)
6.Divergence(2)
7.Specific ocular motor syndromes:
- Cranial nerve palsies(1)
- Third, fourth and sixth
- Supranuclear palsies(1)
- Internuclear ophthalmoplegia
- One and half syndrome
- Horizontal gaze palsy
- Monocular elevation deficit
- Vertical gaze palsy
- Skew deviation
- Ocular tilt reaction(2)
- Ocular motor apraxia(2)
- Spasm of the near triad(1)
- Convergence insufficiency(1)
- Divergence insufficiency(1)
- Decompensation of phorias(1)
- Restriction syndromes(1)
- Ocular neuromyotonia(2)
- Cyclic oculomotor paresis(2)
8. Classical brain stem syndromes(3)
- Foville
- Millard-Gubler
- Duane's syndrome
- Möbius syndrome
- Locked In syndrome
- Nothnagel
- Benedickt
- Weber
- Claude syndrome
- Wallenberg syndrome
- Syndrome of the anterior inferior cerebellar artery
9. Ocular motility disturbance by location(1)
- Medulla
- Pons
- Mesencephalon
- Dorsal mid brain syndrome
- Cerebellar pathology
VII. Nystagmus and disorders of ocular stability
Goals:
1. Diagnose and evaluate patients with ocular oscillations.
2. Recognize the localizing nystagmus.
Topics:
1. Jerk nystagmus(1)
2. Pendular nystagmus(1)
3. Congenital vs acquired nystagmus(1)
4. Central vs peripheral nystagmus(1)
5. Specific types of nystagmus and their localizing value(1)
- Down beat nystagmus
- Upbeat nystagmus
- Rebound nystagmus
- Brun's nystagmus
- Periodic alternating
- Convergence retraction nystagmus
- See saw nystagmus
- Divergence nystagmus
- Sensory nystagmus
- Congenital motor nystagmus
- Spasmus nutans
6.Induced nystagmus(2)
- Valsalva
- Sounds (Tullio's phenomena)
- Calorics: hot or cold water in ear(1)
7.Ocular oscillations(1)
- Superior oblique myokymia
- Square wave jerks
- Opsoclonus
- Flutter
- Ocular bobbing
- Oculopalatal myoclonus
- Oculomasticatory myorhythmia
VIII. Eyelid position abnormalities
Goals:
1. Diagnose and manage patients with eyelid position abnormalities.
Topics:
1.Eyelid retraction.(1)
2.Ptosis(1)
- Pseudoptosis(3)
- Congenital(2)
- With elevator palsy(2)
- Marcus Gunn Jaw Wink(2)
- Blepharophimosis(3)
- Levator dehiscence(2)
- Myopathic(1)
- Neuro-muscular transmission(1)
- Neuropathic(1)
- Cortical
- Apraxia of eyelid opening
- Third nerve dysfunction
- Horner's syndrome
- Blepharospasm(1)
3. Eyelid nystagmus(2)
IX. Facial nerve dysfunction
Goals:
1. Diagnose and evaluate patients with facial nerve dysfunction
2. Treat patients with blepharospasms and hemifacial spasm
Topics:
1. Central and peripheral facial palsy(1)
2. Blepharospasm(1)
3. Hemifacial spasm(1)
4. Facial myokymia(2)
5. Oculomasticatory myorhythmia (Whipple's)(3)
6. Facial tics(3)
7. Facial myotonia(3)