A neuro-ophthalmology banquet: A selection of topics from authors worldwide

• Type of Material: Article
• Authors: Nancy Newman, Emory University; Valerie Biousse, Emory University
• Language: English
• Date: 2021-01-01
• Publisher: Wolters Kluwer
• Publication Version: Final Published Version
• Copyright Statement: © 2021 Taiwan J Ophthalmol
• License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
• Final Published Version (URL): http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/tjo.tjo_82_20
• Title of Journal or Parent Work: Taiwan Journal of Ophthalmology
• Volume: 11
• Issue: 1
• Start Page: 1
• End Page: 2
• Grant/Funding Information: Valérie Biousse and Nancy J. Newman are supported in part by NIH/NEI core grant P30-EY06360 (Department of Ophthalmology, Emory University School of Medicine), and by NIH/NINDS (RO1NSO89694).
• Keywords: ophthalmology; neurosurgery; Optical coherence tomography (OCT); patients
• Research Categories: Health Sciences, Opthamology; Health Sciences, Medicine and Surgery

Abstract

We were honored last year to have been invited by the Taiwan Ophthalmological Society as their guests at the 60th Anniversary Meeting, an extraordinary professional, academic, intellectual and social event. We were doubly honored when we were asked by the Editor-In-Chief David Hui-Kang Ma and his Editorial Board of the Taiwan Journal of Ophthalmology to co-edit this special edition in the journal on neuro-ophthalmologic topics. Neuro-ophthalmology has always been an essential part of the training of every ophthalmologist worldwide. Irrespective of how specialized an ophthalmologist becomes in even the most tiny of portions of the eye, there can always be a neuro-ophthalmologic cause lurking behind a patient's seemingly straightforward presentation. Ophthalmologists are skilled in direct inspection of the eye and are used to actually seeing pathology rather than inferring it. Not seeing does not mean not knowing, however, and ophthalmologists can overcome their concerns by remembering their training in neuro-ophthalmology and continuing to refresh their education throughout their careers. Indeed, every ophthalmologist should be not only comfortable but also interested in that part of the visual system that lets the eye do what it needs to do so well.