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Accommodation Flashcards

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Accommodation

A

process to make and maintain a focused retinal image

changes lens power and lens curvature

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What causes the lens changes in accommodation?

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Ciliary Muscle

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Ciliary Muscle

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parasympathetic innervation

contracts to cause lens changes and releases resting tension of zonules

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Edinger-Westphal Nucleus

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where parasympathetic pathway starts

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3 physiological changes in accommodation

Triad or Near Reflex

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eye accommodation
pupil constriction
eyes converge

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Change in pupil size

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controls light
modifies depth of focus
varies any optical aberration

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Reflex Accommodation

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auto adjustment to maintain focused retinal image
response to blur
important for scanning eye movements

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Vergence Accommodation

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induced during fusional vergences

leads to convergence accommodation/ convergence ratio (CA/C)

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Proximal Accommodation

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refocusing from perceived nearness of target

stimulated by targets w/in 3 m of person

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Tonic Accommodation

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“Lead of Accommodation”
resting level of accommodation (0.5 - 1.5D)
due to baseline stable parasympathetic innervation
reduces with age

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Factors that affect Accommodation

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blur, convergence, proximal issues, pharmacology, minus lens, disease

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Retinal image factors that affect Accommodation

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contrast, spatial frequency, retinal image motion

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Non-retinal factors that affect Accommodation

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mood, voluntary effort, target luminance, training

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Optical Cues that affect Accommodation

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offer info about directionality, astigmatism, aberrations

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Non-optical cues that affect Accommodation

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size, proximity, apparent distance, depth cues

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Aberrations

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occur when peripheral rays do not coincide with the central and on axis rays

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Depth of Focus

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variation in image distance that is tolerable without defocus

18
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Muscarinic blockers

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inhibit accommodation by preventing acetylcholine from binding
Tropicamide and Cyclopentolate

19
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Presbyopia

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age related loss of accommodative amplitude
40-45 yrs
complete loss of accommodation by 50-55
2.5D loss per yr

20
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Factors that lead to loss of Accommodation

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lens thickness and size increase, springiness of capsule decreases (thickens), anterior surface curvature increases
zonule # decreases

21
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What remains the same when a person starts to lose accommodation?

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Ciliary muscle function
zonule elasticity
motor neuron pathway

22
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Accommodation Excess

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treated with distance correction and VT

23
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Accommodation Infacility

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correction and VT

24
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Accommodation Insufficiency

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correction and plus lenses

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