CLASS DISCUSSION

Module 11

The following list of slides will form the basis for the classroom discussion of Module 11.

TOPIC 1 - Visual pathways - the overall plan

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3) - FIGURE 11-4 - our view

TOPIC 2 - Key Slides

4) - Cu Slide 40 - just in front of the chiasm

5) - Cu Slide 38 - the chiasm

6) - Cu Slide 30 - the optic tract

7) - Cu Slide 25 - lateral geniculate and visual radiation

8) - HF Slide 22 - visual radiation - click caudal to trace it to the calcarine sulcus

TOPIC 3 - Gross view

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TOPIC 4 - The pupillary light reflex

10) - Cu Slide 24b

11) - but be aware that with most testing, light falls on all parts of the retina, so that it activates fibers traveling back in BOTH optic tracts. This means that even when one optic tract or lateral geniculate nucleus is damaged, shining light in EITHER eye will cause both pupils to constrict.

TOPIC 5 - The clinical cases.

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Case 16 -

Case 17 -

Case 18 - Cornell - practice - click on cards to call up the Pixelated Cards for Module 11. Then open card 11.1 and use this page of blank visual field maps to draw the visual fields following the lesions shown on the card.

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