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Key Features: • Only comprehensive text on neuro-ophthalmology published from India. • Useful to practicing neurologists, neurosurgeons, ophthalmologists and trainees. • Very well illustrated and written in a lucid language incorporating up-to-date information. • Clinical examination methods like measurement of visual acuity, ophthalmoscopy, and visual field examination are included. • Topics of current interest like use of optical coherence therapy in neurological practice, neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders, modern management of idiopathic intracranial hypertension, and thyroid ophthalmopathy included. • Complex topics like nuclear, infranuclear, and supranuclear ocular motor and gaze disorders including nystagmus discussed in detail. • A separate chapter on problem oriented neuro-ophthalmology-pearls and pitfalls.

Contents: 1. Assessment of Visual Acuity/Arnab Biswas. 2. Optical Cohererence Tomography In Neurological Practice/Pushpita Sahu. 3. Ophthalmoscopy in Clinical Practice/Ambar Chakravarty. 4. Visual Field Examination for the Neurologist/Ambar Chakravarty and Pushpita Sahu. 5. Examination of Pupil/Ambar Chakravarty and Debasish Roy.6. Unexplained Visual Loss/Ambar Chakravarty. 7. Transient Visual Loss/Jayanta Roy. 8. Optic Neuritis/Debasish Roy and Ambar Chakravarty. 9. Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorders/Debasish Roy and Ambar Chakravarty. 10. Non-inflammatory Optic Neuropathies/Debasish Roy, Sandip Chatterjee and Ambar Chakravarty 11. Chiasmal Disorders/Sandip Chatterjee. 12. Retrochiasmal Visual Impairments/KK Sinha. 13. Visual Illusions and Hallucinations/Ambar Chakravarty. 14. Nuclear and Infranuclear Ophthalmoplegias/Ambar Chakravarty. 15. Phoria. Squint and Diplopia/Pushpita Sahu and Ambar Chakravarty. 16. Gaze and Supranuclear Oculomotor Disorders/Angshuman Mukherjee and Ambar Chakravarty.17. Ocular Oscillations/Angshuman Mukherjee and Ambar Chakravarty. 18. Ptosis and Blepharospasm/Ravindranath M Chowdhury and Sanjib Sinha. 19. Proptosis/Ajitesh Das and Sudip Chatterjee. 20. Psychogenic Neuro-ophthalmological Disorders/Ambar Chakravarty. 21. Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension/Barun K Sen and Arabinda Mukherjee. 22. The Eye and Headache/Koushik Pan and Ambar Chakravarty. 23. Problem Oriented Neuro-Ophthalmology: Pearls and Pitfalls/Koushik Pan and Ambar Chakravarty. Appendices. Index.