Neuro-Ophthalmology

Neuro-ophthalmology: through a wide angle lens

“…Our forefathers, in the era before modern radiology, combined a particular knack for observation, deftness of examination and knowledge in the more subtle aspects of neuroanatomy to shape a discipline that focused on precision of anatomic localization of a clinical deficit and erudition of the differential diagnosis. The importance of visual anatomy and physiology was emphasized in a 1945 textbook simply entitled “Neuro-ophthalmology” by Donald Lyle (Lyle, 1945). The first comprehensive clinical textbook dedicated to this discipline appeared in 1947, authored by Dr. Frank B. Walsh (Walsh, 1947), considered by many as the founder of clinical neuro-ophthalmology.…”