The Evolutionary Basis of Strabismus and Nystagmus in Children: Landmark Essays (2021) by Michael C. Brodsky PDF

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This text is a comprehensive collection and discussion of scientific essays that define the pathogenesis of common forms of pediatric strabismus and nystagmus in terms of their common evolutionary mechanisms. The goal of this book is to assemble these essays, to provide a definitive source for current clinicians to use along with follow up comments to help direct future scientific research in the field of pediatric ophthalmology. This book includes 20 original essays written by Michael C. Brodsky which mechanistically explain and unify such enigmatic conditions such as infantile esotropia, latent nystagmus, primary oblique muscle overreaction action, dissociated vertical divergence, infantile nystagmus, and intermittent exotropia in terms of ancestral evolutionary reflexes which become expressed in different ways to generate these disorders. This collection of essays is poised to become a classic reference, providing the necessary neurological framework for contextualizing unique ocular motor disorder and understanding the evolutionary mechanisms responsible for their development in early childhood. Written with focused interest for pediatric ophthalmologists and neuro-ophthalmologists, this reference will also find audience with ophthalmologists, neurologists, evolutionary biologists, and neuroscientists.

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⭐Dr. Brodsky’s evolutionary perspective has forever altered the field of pediatric ophthalmology. It represents a tectonic shift in thinking about some of the most common and important eye movement disorders in children. The impact of Dr. Brodsky’s analyses and conclusions, as outlined in this collection of annotated essays, cannot be overstated. Not only does Brodsky brilliantly explain the origin of many pediatric ocular motility disorders, but he also demonstrates how these seemingly disparate conditions are, in fact, interrelated.Each field of human study has at least one text that has brought unity, coherence and conceptual validity out of a morass of muddled misconceptions. In biology, it was Darwin’s “Origin of the Species.” In quantitative mechanics, it was Newton’s “Principia.” And now, in pediatric ophthalmology, it’s Brodsky’s “Evolutionary Basis of Strabismus and Nystagmus.”