An 18 year old female with history of migraine without aura reported the abrupt onset of continuous, irregular, rapid (“shaking”) movements of objects perceived on the periphery of her visual fields over both eyes, when fixating on any given target. Symptoms were not suppressed by monocular eye closure. In some form, she experienced incomplete tunnel vision (“pseudo-tunnel”), since the peripher...

I roared onto North Avenue, inches behind my mentor in her Volkswa-gen. We ran through the hospital, saying hellos up to the fifth floor. Urgent. The room was dark. Two nurses in pale blue scrubs greeted us; the patient barely noticed, softly pleading for the pain to cease. At once the room flooded with a calm tension. There were no family members decorating the starkly empty plastic chairs. He...

Case 1: A 4-year-old girl presented to our emergency department (ED) during the height of summer with 5 days of left-sided facial droop, which spared the forehead. The patient also complained of severe fatigue, 1 week of frontal headaches, urinary retention, intermittent erythematous rash around her eyes and behind her knees, and an increase in night terrors. Three days before admission, she wa...

In this paper, we will discuss design suggestions to realize remote pointing in distant collaborations. We use the pointing to anchor what we say to real worlds in our daily life. In the virtual world, we anchor our conversation to virtual worlds. The anchoring is necessary to establish mutual understanding between participants but important elements for the anchoring are not known. We show tha...

BACKGROUND We report our findings in two siblings with late-onset cone-rod dystrophy (CRD) with no visible macular degeneration. CASES AND METHODS Case 1 was an 82-year-old man who first noticed a decrease in vision and color blindness in his early seventies. His mother and younger sister also had visual disturbances. His decimal visual acuity was 0.3 in the right eye and 0.2 in the left eye....

Dome-shaped macula (DSM) was described by Gaucher et al as a convex protrusion of macula within a staphyloma in highly myopic eyes that causes visual impairment associated with serous foveal detachment (SFD). We describe a patient with spontaneous resolution of SFD in DSM documented by serial spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT). A 28-year-old female Japanese patient presented ...

A young woman came to see me a few days ago, a former patient now in her twenties. She will die soon; nothing can be done. We shared some recollections of the years when I was her pediatrician, and she expressed some regrets that she was to have no future. But she shed no tears. Still, I cannot forget her eyes staring into the distance as though searching for a way to cry. Momentarily, she smil...

CASE REPORT A 27-year-old woman with congenital glaucoma with high myopia, low visual acuity and nystagmus in both eyes, was referred for contact lens fitting. We fitted her with aspherical rigid gas permeable (RGP) contact lenses with high transmissibility, which she wore on a daily basis. Her visual acuity improved with the wearing of these lenses, which remained comfortable whilst being worn...

Alice is an engineer who ventures into the research world of Life Sciences. To her eyes, Life Sciences researchers work backwards compared to what happens in her world. It appears that their research methodology has a number of issues that may limit its potential. Nevertheless, she also becomes aware that a different set of problems arises if her own traditional top-down engineering approach is...

A young filly in a stall at a high-class boarding stable lay down in her stall, got up, and lay down again, with dull, glassy eyes. She tried to roll before the caretaker caught her and haltered her, walking her slowly until the veterinarian could come to see her. When the veterinarian arrived, she listened to the filly’s gut sounds with the stethoscope to see if they were abnormal, and diagnos...