TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Approach to Pediatric Vision Disorders A1 - Zhang, Kevin X. A1 - Shah, Veeral S. A2 - Hershey, Andrew D. PY - 2023 T2 - CURRENT Diagnosis & Treatment Pediatric Neurology AB - At their core, human beings are visual beings, and this is evidenced by the fact that most of the human brain is devoted to the visual system. The visual sensory or afferent pathways not only include the retina, optic nerve, chiasm, optic tract, lateral geniculate nucleus, optic radiations, and primary visual cortex, but also the parietal and temporal lobes, which are involved in processing visual information to produce a rich and vibrant sensory experience. The motor or efferent visual system, which directs eye movement to optimize target-specific viewing of the object of interest and capture visual information, requires extraocular muscles, cranial nerves, and their nuclei, which are found in the midbrain, pons, and brainstem. However, they also require the supranuclear network found in the frontal eye fields, parietal lobe, supplementary eye fields, superior colliculus, basal ganglia, and reticular formation. SN - PB - McGraw Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/10/06 UR - neurology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1195238031 ER -