Daniel Lewis Adams

Dan Adams is professore associato at the Facoltà di Scienze Cognitive (UNITN) and assistant professor at the UCSF (University of South California, San Francisco).

Mains interest

My work is focussed on binocular vision in humans. I am especially interested in the neural processes behind stereoscopic depth perception in normal individuals, and how the visual brain adapts to impediments to our binocular view of the world. One such challenge is a misalignment of the optic axes that occurs in childhood, called strabismus. Children with strabismus face a lifetime with poor depth perception, and may develop a secondary visual problem known as amblyopia or ‘lazy eye’ that can produce permanent blindness in one eye. The aim of my research is to elucidate the neural circuits that control eye alignment and the suppressive processes that prevent double vision in strabismus. My hope is that a deeper understanding of binocular vision and its failure will create new in-roads to treatment or even prevention of this all-too-common childhood disease.

Research areas and projects

I am currently involved in a research project testing adult strabismic patients to discover the patterns of ocular suppression that prevent them from experiencing double vision (diplopia). Functional imaging studies will them show us the neural correlates of this suppression. Suppression is an important aspect of strabismus because it eliminates the diplopia that acts as a drive for children to realign their eyes spontaneously.

Current collaborations

Dr Jonathan C Horton, Laboratory of Visual Neuroscience, Department of Ophthalmology, University of California San Francisco

Dr Stewart Shipp, Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London.

For the full listof publications, please CLICK HERE (available graphs about publications, collaborations network and citing articles network) or HERE (U-GOV Catalogue)