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Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, Vol 28, 1246-1249, Copyright © 1987 by Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology

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Accommodative hysteresis: influence on closed loop measures of far point and near point

SM Ebenholtz and PA Zander

The study examined accommodative hysteresis under closed loop viewing conditions. After sustained focus for 8 min at either the far-point (FP) or near-point (NP) of accommodation, subjects exhibited hysteresis- like shifts in tonic accommodation, ie, dark focus (DF), in the direction of the fixation target. Measurement of NP and FP before and after the focusing period showed that only the position of the NP was significantly influenced, in a direction matching that of the DF. The NP shifted outward by 0.37 diopters (D) and inward by 0.62 D after sustained FP and NP focusing respectively. Control conditions in which subjects focused on a target at the dioptric distance of the DF or were exposed to an 8 min dark interval showed no changes in either NP, FP or DF. The ready susceptibility of the NP to hysteresis effects suggests a potential contributing role of these phenomena to near-work-induced myopia by way of increased accommodative amplitudes with attendant increases in scleral and/or choroidal stress.




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