Psychological approach to treatment of accommodative / convergence anomalies
6 February 2024
| Fiona Rowe (Prof)
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
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Accommodation paralysis, accommodation spasm, anxiety, psychological
A case series is presented of affected children, young people and young adults with discussion of a psychological approach to aiding their accommodative problems. The psychological approach involved an information sheet provided at the end of assessment which included explanations...
The effect of caffeine on pupil size and accommodation
7 April 2021
| Kurt Spiteri Cornish
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EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology
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Caffeine, accommodation, pupil diameter, visual function
Twenty-two young and healthy participants were recruited in this study. The authors showed that pupil size increased as a result of caffeine consumption. A more stable (lower variability of accommodation) accommodative response (AR) was induced by caffeine intake, whereas the...
AC/A measurement differences
1 June 2019
| Fiona Rowe (Prof)
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
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AC/A ratio, accommodation, convergence, measurement methods
The authors sought to investigate differences in stimulus accommodative convergence/accommodation (AC/A) ratio using various techniques and accommodative stimuli. The study included 81 orthoptic students; 15 males and 66 females with a mean age of 21 years ±1. Ocular deviation was...
Glasses or not?
1 February 2014
| Carmel Noonan
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
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visual development, accommodation, vergence, hyperopia, esotropia
In this excellent review article, the authors discuss how some hyperopes avoid strabismus but also ask why the youngest infants escape strabismus and older patients go on to decompensate. The review considers a number of related aspects and their inter-relations...
