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Micropsia Proposal

Chuck Cahalane, Christina Farnham, Jim Semple

Important Information

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Points To Be Covered

Introduction

Overview

Symptoms

Diagnosis

Causes

Treatment

Current/Future Research

Conclusion

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Tentative Sources

Primary Sources:

1. Selective deficit of visual size perception: two cases of hemimicropsia. Laurent Cohen, Francoise Gray, Christian Meyrignac, Stanislas Dehaene, Jean-Denis Degos Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry 1994;57:73-78 http://jnnp.bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/57/1/73?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=micropsia&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&sortspec=relevance&resourcetype=HWCIT

2. Brain imaging in a patient with hemimicropsia J. Kassubek, M. Otte, T. Wolter, M. W. Greenlee, T. Mergner and C. H. Lücking Neurologische UniversitaÈtsklinik, UniversitaÈt Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6T0D-3XH367D-1&_user=521319&_coverDate=11%2F30%2F1999&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_acct=C000026018&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=521319&md5=47d4d3bc75dd4406c8ded82bb67b34df

3. The relation between convergence micropsia and retinal eccentricity Mark Hollins and Kenneth W. Bunn Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, U.S.A. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6T0W-4846627-54&_user=521319&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_acct=C000026018&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=521319&md5=ed8e9b57c4ebbc0668f8da5a1f4ec06c

4. Seeing Objects Smaller Than They are: Micropsia Following Right Temporo-Parietal Infarction Fiorenzo Ceriani, Valentina Gentileschi, Silvia Muggia and Hans Spinnler Third Neurological Department of the University of Milan http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B8JH1-4S0JBR7-9&_user=521319&_coverDate=12%2F31%2F1998&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_acct=C000026018&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=521319&md5=ac3535cc49355e0e21220619cd0e1716

Secondary Sources:

1. What is Micropsia? http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-micropsia.htm

2. A Word a Day: Micropsia http://wordsmith.org/words/micropsia.html

3. Medical Dictionary: Micropsia http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/micropsia

4. Web-Md: Migraines in Children http://www.webmd.com/migraines-headaches/migraines-in-children?page=3

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Allotment of Workload

Chuck Cahalane: Introduction Overview Diagnosis

Christina Farnham: Symptoms Causes

Jim Semple: Treatment Current/Future Research Conclusion