Reference Material for the OPSIS Course
By Optometrists
Bruenech, R, Haugen, IB, “How does the structure of extraocular muscles and their nerves affect their function?”, Eye (2015) 29, 177-183 Abstract
Bruenech, R., Runkell, G., “Myotendinous Nerve Endings in Human Infant and Adult Extraocular Muscles”, The Anatomical Record 260:132-140 (2000) Abstract
Bruenech, Jan Richard, “Neuroanatomical Structures in Extraocular Muscles and Their Potential Implication in the Management of Strabismus”, Advance in Ophthalmology and Optometry 6 (2021) 39-53
Bruenech, JR., Haugen, IB. K., “Neuromuscular Principles in the Visual System and Their Potential Role in Visual Discomfort”, Ergonomics and Health Aspects, 2007, pp 10-18 Abstract
Cook, David, “A Treatise on Re-Defining Success in Optometric Vision Therapy for Strabismus Based on a Case Series of 75 Patients”, Vision Development & Rehabilitation, Vol 11, Issue 1, March 2025 Access Journal
Forrest, Elliott B., “Clinical Manifestations of Visual Information Processing: Part 1”, Reprinted from the JAOA, Vol 47, #1, January 1976, pp 73-80
Forrest, Elliott B., “Clinical Manifestation of Visual Information Processing: Part 2”, Reprinted from the JAOA Vol 47, #4, April 1976, pp 499-507
Gallop, Steve, “Viewpoint: What’s so Great About 20/20? Or… The Plight of Nearsightedly-Challenged Individuals”, JBO, Vol 12, #2, pp 41-46
Harris, Paul, “Chapter 1 - What is Vision?”, Monograph, OPSIS Education Foundation, 2023
Harris, Paul, “Chapter 2 - The Space World”, Monograph, OPSIS Education Foundation, 2023
Harris, Paul, “Visual Conditions of Symphony Musicians”, JAOA, Vol 59, #12, 12/88 pp 952-959
Haynes, H., Morgan, M, “Compiled Expected and Normative Data”, by SCC
Leat, Susan J., “To prescribe or not to prescribe? Guidelines for spectacle prescribing in infants and children”, Clinical and Experimental Optometry, 94:6: 514-527 2011
Skeffington, AM, “Functional Optometric Philosophy”
Skeffington, AM, “Linguistic Memory and the Visual Problem”, Read at the 24th Eastern States Congress, April 8, 1973, New York
Smith, Earl, et. al., “Visual regulation of refractive development: insights from animal studies”, Eye (2014) 28, pp 180-188
Steele, Glen, “Dynamic Retinoscopy - A Video not a Snapshot”
Steele, Glen, “Viewpoint: Dynamic Retinoscopy - More Than a Snapshot”, JBO Vol. 18, #5, pp 127-129
Williams, G., Kitchener, G., Press, L., Steele, G., “Vision: A Collaboration of Eyes and Brain”, Vol 75, #11, November 2004 pp 717-718
Zadnik, K., Mutti, D.O., Adams, A.J., “The Repeatability of Measurement of the Ocular Components”, Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, Vol 33, #7, June 1992 pp 2325- 2333
By Non-ODS
Atkinson, J., Braddick, O., Nardini, M., & Anker, S., “Infant Hyperopia: Detection, Distribution, Changes and Correlates — Outcomes From the Cambridge Infant Screening Programs”, Optometry and Vision Science, Vol 84, No. 2, PP 84-96, 2007
Atkinson, J., et. al., “Infant Vision Screening Predicts Failures on Motor and Cognitive Tests up to School Age”, Strabismus - 2002, Vol. 10, No. 3, pp 187-198
Atkinson, J., Braddick, O., “Neurobiological Models of Normal and Abnormal Visual Development”, book chapter for De Haan - revised
Atkinson, J., et. al., “Normal Emmetropization in Infants with Spectacle Correction for Hyperopia”, Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, November 2000, Vol 41, No 12, pp 3726-3731
Barry, Susan, “From 2-D to 3-D Sight: How One Scientist Learned to See”, Scientific American, Mind Matters, August 4, 2009.
Braithwaite, R. Scott, MD, “EBM’s Six Dangerous Words”, JAMA November 27, 2003, Vol 310, Number 20
Feldenkrais, Moshe, “Learning to Learn”, The Field Center.ORG
Gesell, Arnold, “Infant Vision”, Scientific American, February 1950, Vol 182, #2 pp 20-22
Gesell, A., Ilg, F., Bullis, G., “Vision Its Development in Infant and Child”, 1949, Paul B. Hoeber, Inc.
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, “Eye and Mind”, from The Primacy of Perception, 1964 Northwestern University Press
Pribram, Karl H., “Holonomic Brain Theory and Motor Gestalts: Recent Experimental Results”, abstract of keynote lecture, Vienna, Austria, March 1997
Thelen, Esther, PhD., “Dynamic Systems Theory and the Complexity of Change”, 2005 The Analytic Press, Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 15(2) pp 255-283 Abstract

