title: Applications of catastrophe theory to optometry.
abstract: Catastrophe theory, a recently developed area of mathematics, is used to model two aspects of visual behavior. Visual behavior measured in a patient undergoing phorometry and the visual behavior of some patients with anomalous retinal correspondence undergoing the Walraven technique are characterized as catastrophes.
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008433:Mathematics; D009907:Optometry; D014785:Vision, Ocular