The Relation Of Left Or Right Visual Acuity And Psychologic Symptoms In Strabismic Patients

Sadrettin Pençe; Ali Savaş Çilli; Ahmet Özkağnıcı

doi:10.58600/eurjther.2008-14-2-1336-arch

Authors

Sadrettin Pençe Gaziantep University School of Medicine Department of Physiology
Ali Savaş Çilli Selcuk University School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry
Ahmet Özkağnıcı Selcuk University School of Medicine Department of Ophtalmology

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.58600/eurjther.2008-14-2-1336-arch

Keywords:

Strabismus, Visual acuity, Eye preference, Psychological symptoms

Abstract

Strabismus refers to any abnormality of eye coordination or alignment that results in loss of binocular vision. The rate of right-eye preference was reported to be greater at the right-handed subjects than the left-handed ones. The eye has a visual acuity threshold below which an object will go undetected. The 39 consecutive subjects, who had esotropia or exotropia, were enrolled in this study. We noticed a relation in most of the parameters between intensity of psychological symptoms and visual acuity of the right eye, whereas there was no such relation with the lefte eye. Another interesting finding was the validity of this relation for only men. We may propose that differences in cerebral complex network concerning lateralization may be responsible for this relation of the parameters between intensity of psychological symptoms and visual acuity of the right eye.

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