Diagnosis And Genetics Of Defective Color Vision

Completely updated and revised, this practical book continues to provide clear and succinct information about colour defiency and all aspects of colour vision testing.

This book takes a clinical approach to the patient with a genetic disease that affects the eye. The chapters on particular types of diseases follow the same organizational format, covering history, pathogenesis and etiology, epidemiology, classification, clinical manifestations and diagnosis, and treatment. The recent progress achieved in the molecular genetics of eye disease is fully reflected throughout the book. It is written by leading experts in the field and provides clinical, molecular genetic and management information on common and rare diseases. The chapters are heavily illustrated and provide a good Atlas for the practicing ophthalmologist or geneticist.

We perceive color everywhere and on everything that we encounter in daily life. Color science has progressed to the point where a great deal is known about the mechanics, evolution, and development of color vision, but less is known about the relation between color vision and psychology. However, color psychology is now a burgeoning, exciting area and this Handbook provides comprehensive coverage of emerging theory and research. Top scholars in the field provide rigorous overviews of work on color categorization, color symbolism and association, color preference, reciprocal relations between color perception and psychological functioning, and variations and deficiencies in color perception. The Handbook of Color Psychology seeks to facilitate cross-fertilization among researchers, both within and across disciplines and areas of research, and is an essential resource for anyone interested in color psychology in both theoretical and applied areas of study.

Color Vision, first published in 2000, defines the state of knowledge about all aspects of human and primate color vision.

This book will contain the proceedings of the XIV International Symposium on Retinal Degeneration (RD2010), held July 13-17, 2010, in Mont-Tremblant, Quebec, Canada. The volume will present representative state-of-the-art research in almost all areas of retinal degenerations, ranging from cytopathologic, physiologic, diagnostic and clinical aspects; animal models; mechanisms of cell death; candidate genes, cloning, mapping and other aspects of molecular genetics; and developing potential therapeutic measures such as gene therapy and neuroprotective agents for potential pharmaceutical therapy.

This valuable handbook is quite unique in its essentially practical yet comprehensive approach to the testing of colour vision, and in its unusual consideration of palliative methods; professionals will find that it offers guidance for the examination and treatment of patients in many different circumstances. To benefit a wider readership each chapter is self-contained, from the comprehensive academic sections on normal and abnormal colour vision to the later sections which are of particular interest to those concerned with vocational guidance and the occupational consequences of defective colour vision.

This book is a comprehensive treatment of all facets of colour blindness. It looks at the causes of congenital colour deficiency, and acquired colour vision defects arising from ocular and general pathology or excessive use of therapeutic drugs. The design of clinical colour vision tests is fully explained and all the available tests documented. Detailed information is given on the optimum use of screening, classification and occupational tests. Examples of typical results in different types of deficiency are included, together with advice on the examination of children and disadvantaged groups. A checklist is provided of occupations requiring normal colour vision or in which defective colour vision is a handicap. This is a practical book, designed for students and all professionals engaged in colour vision screening, but pitched at a level that will also appeal to the non-specialist reader.