title: Confusion, diplopia, and suppression.
abstract: Consideration of the clinical features and animal experimental models suggests that inhibition/suppression is not involved in anisometropic amblyopia. The role of suppression in anomalous correspondence needs further elucidation. Sensory testing in Duane's syndrome, where both BSV and suppression can be highly developed, confirms that diplopia may arise spontaneously at greater ages than previously suspected. The clinical time course of development of strabismic suppression is similar to that of the sensitive period during which binocularity can be established. Blakemore (1978) suggests that it may be more useful to think of a period of heightened sensitivity which tails off gradually. This concept would similarly apply to the time during which suppression may be established which does not have a sharp cut-off at 7 years of age.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000550:Amblyopia / Q000209:etiology; D002648:Child; D004172:Diplopia / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D004370:Duane Retraction Syndrome / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012607:Scotoma / Q000503:physiopathology; D014786:Vision Disorders / Q000503:physiopathology*; D014794:Visual Fields