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Article
March 1968

The Diagnosis of Ocular Conversion Reaction Involving Visual Function

Author Affiliations

Chicago
From Eye Research Laboratories, The University of Chicago.

Arch Ophthalmol. 1968;79(3):254-261. doi:10.1001/archopht.1968.03850040256006
Abstract

Fifty-nine patients with ocular conversion reactions affecting vision are discussed. This heterogeneous group of subjects was affected by a wide variety of stresses contributing to symptoms. A precipitating stress of early organic disease was initially overlooked in two patients. These patients were most often distinguished by a fluctuating visual acuity influenced by suggestion and other factors, tubular visual fields which were constant in some patients but variable in others, and an upward shift of dark-adaptation thresholds after prolonged testing, termed the exhaustion phenomenon. Color vsion and orthoptic findings were definitely helpful in a few patients. Normal results of an electroretinogram and sometimes also normal results of an electrooculogram were useful in establishing normal retinal function in most of these patients.

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