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- From: MCCAINKW@DUVM.OCS.DREXEL.EDU (kate McCain)
- Newsgroups: bionet.neuroscience
- Subject: strabismus
- Message-ID: <9211201903.AA00912@net.bio.net>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 18:55:26 GMT
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- I found Mark Dubin's posting interesting and educational. I have always
- wondered why I have (apparently) good depth perception [I always do well
- on the optometrist's polarized light tests and driving tests etc.] but still
- "see double*" Piecing his comments together with those of my opinionated
- optometrist -- my brain is just not processing the two visual images
- (at depth) the same way that most people's brains do. I must get depth
- perception via some kind of parallax?? Following an early diagnosed "lazy
- eye" (and extreme farsightedness) I have worn glasses since age 3.5 yrs,
- bifocals since 15, trifocals since 37 and am now wearing progressives -- plus
- early exercises, atropine treatments, and surgery at 14 to "improve fusion."
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- *at distance -- close vision seems to be ok.
-
- I can certainly believe the "miswiring" characterization -- but if the
- "exercise won't work" statement is correct -- then why do optometrists
- recommend them? Are there similar conditions where eye muscles _can_ be
- exercised to improve vision??
-
- Kate McCain bibliometrics R us
- College of Information Studies
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- mccainkw@duvm.ocs.drexel.edu
-