Projects
Sample projects
The following is a sample of projects currently underway. Both those involving and not involving CVS students have been listed to give an idea of the range of investigations ongoing. CVS MSc students are listed in italics.
Investigator(s) |
Study |
|---|---|
| Leila Fahim & Robert LaRoche | Clinical Assessment of Motion Stereopsis in Strabismus Sufferers. A Novel and More Realistic Clinical Functional Measure |
| Robert LaRoche & PEDIG | Intermittent Exotropia Study 2 (IXT2). A Randomized Clinical Trial of Observation versus Occlusion Therapy for Intermittent Exotropia |
| Robert LaRoche & PEDIG | Esotropia Treatment with Botulinum Toxin-A Injection Data Collection |
| Robert LaRoche, Naeem Nabi & PEDIG | Pediatric Cataract Surgery Outcomes Registry |
| Jeffery Locke & François Tremblay | Regulation of Retinal Activity in an Ex-vivo Guinea Pig Model by Chloral Hydrate, Ketamine and Xylazine Anesthetics |
| Meghan McMillan, Mary Lou McGregor & Karen McMain | The Frequency of Association between Fourth Cranial Nerve Palsies and Convergence Insufficiency: An Observational Cohort Study |
| Johane Robitaille | Genetic Analysis of Frizzled-4 (FZD4) and its Influence on Familial Exudative Vitreoretinopathy (ROP) and Other Associated Retinal Disorders |
| Johane Robitaille | Genetic Analysis and Mutation Effect on the Variation of Phenotype of Autosomal Dominant Optic Atrophy (ADOA), Leber’s Congenital Amaurosis & Congential Stationary Night Blindness |
| Johane Robitaille & François Tremblay | Clinical and Genetic Analysis of Presumed Pericentral Retinal Degeneration |
| Johane Robitaille, Alan Cruess, François Tremblay, et al | Foundation Fighting Blindness Patient Registry |
| Stephanie Sobey & Patricia McMullen | Effects of Target Gaze Direction, Head Position, and Inversion on Sex Recognition: An Eye-Tracking Study |
| François Tremblay | Does Long-term Feeding of Blueberry Anthocyanins Affect Night Vision? |
| François Tremblay | Role of Voltage-Gated Sodium Channels in the Generation of the Electroretinogram |
| François Tremblay & Joan Parkinson | Comparison of the Effects of Testing Paradigm on Standard Visual Evoked Potential and Sweep Visual Evoked Potentials |