Neuro-ophthalmology

The Neuro-Ophthalmology is a specialty of ophthalmology at the interface of neuroscience, and deals with the neurogenic causes of vision changes as well as the evaluation of neurologic symptoms related to the eyes as a sign of cross diseases.

These include about Paralytic strabismus (strabismus paralytic ), view paralysis, diseases of the retina, visual field defects, disorders of the visual pathway, disorders of pupillary, nystagmus, tumor diseases, Orbitaerkrankungen, multiple sclerosis and myasthenia gravis. In addition, the Neuroophthalmologen often a key position occurs in the clarification of unclear vision problems, as well as in the implementation or evaluation of certain investigations, such as the ocular electrophysiology (VEP, ERG, EOG ) and neuroradiological imaging techniques (MRI, CT).

The importance of this discipline can be seen from the fact that six of twelve cranial nerves alone are directly responsible for the motor, sensory and / or sensory innervation of the eye or its adnexa.

Due to the strong overlap of ophthalmology and neurology, the country-specific distribution of neuro-ophthalmology is very different. While, for example, in the U.S. or Switzerland has a strong self-reliance, it is not represented in other countries, and their contents are treated of ( general ) ophthalmologists and neurologists.

Since the investigation of eye movement disorders of the central regions of the neuro-ophthalmology is, it is often close part of the activities of orthoptists and subject strabologischer diagnostics.