MODULE 11
SUGGESTED READING
Digital:
1) Neuroscience Online: an electronic textbook for the neurosciences. This is a free educational resource provided by the Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston. It is really superb and we urge you to make use of it. The online version works fine on computers, but since visualization of the figures requires a flash player, they are absent when the material is viewed using an Ipad.
Section 2, Chapter 14: Visual Processing: Eye and Retina
14.1 Measures of Visual Sensation
14.2 The Image Forming Process
14.3 The Retina
14.4 Rods and Cones form the Basis for Scotopic and Photopic Vision
14.5 Visual Processing in the Retina
14.5? Clinical Manifestations of Retinal Dysfunction
14.6 Summary
Section 2, Chapter 15: Visual Processing: Cortical Pathways
15.1 The Visual Pathway from Retina to Cortex
15.2 Retinotopic Organization in the Visual Pathway
15.3-7 Clinical Examples
15.8 Summary
2) The Nervous System in Action by Michael D. Mann. Click on MANN TEXT to access the internet version of this excellent textbook. The home page provides links to individual chapters and also offers PDF links, making it easy to print copies of the text. You can view the material directly on your computer screen, but print out a copy if possible. The reason to do so is that we will refer to specific pages in the text, and these are not shown in the computer screen version. In Chapter 5 see the following:
Chapter 7 Vision
Print:
1) Neuroanatomy through Clinical Cases by Hal Blumenfeld.
----- The anatomy of the visual pathway is covered on Pages 431-434.
----- Visual field testing and visual field defects are discussed on Pages 440-444.
2) Clinical Neuroanatomy and Neuroscience by M. J. Turlough Fitzgerald, Gregory Gruener and Estomih Mtui. Fifth Edition.
----- Visual pathways are covered in Chapter 28, starting on Page 303.
----- The visual cortex is considered in greater detail on Pages 320 - 322 of Chapter 29.
3) Fundamental Neuroscience for Basic and Clinical Applications by Duane E. Haines. Third Edition.
----- Central visual pathways are covered in Chapter 20. Material directly relevant to this module is discussed on Pages 319-327. The remainder of the chapter (Pages 227-232) deals with the functional organization of the visual cortex.
4) Cranial Nerves, by Wilson-Pauwels, Akesson and Stewart.
----- There is a section on the optic nerve, which also covers central visual pathways. Read it, if it works well for you.
5) Clinically Oriented Anatomy, Fourth Edition by Keith L. Moore and Arthur F. Dalley.
----- The section on the optic nerve is excellent. It deals with the function and peripheral anatomy of the nerve and starts on Page 1090.
6) Principles of Neural Science by Eric R. Kandel, James H. Schwartz and Thomas M. Jessel.
----- Central visual pathways are covered in Chapter 27. Most of the material deals with an analysis of the visual system at a cellular level, but see Figures 27-4, 27.5, 27.6, 27.9, 27.19 and 27.20 for the anatomy of the visual pathway.
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