TY - BOOK ID - 78075178 TI - The Mechanism of Accommodation and Presbyopia. PY - 2012 SN - 9062998585 9789062998586 9789062992331 9062992331 PB - The Hague Kugler Publications DB - UniCat KW - Presbyopia. KW - Eye KW - Accommodation and refraction KW - Age factors KW - Refractive errors KW - Otorhinolaryngology UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78075178 AB - The human eye is a remarkable optical device. In less than a second, a young human eye can accommodate from infinity to closer than 10 cm. Accommodation occurs with minimal effort and can be rapidly repeated with no apparent evidence of fatigue. Unfortunately, maximum accommodation decreases throughout life and by the fifth decade leads to presbyopia, the inability to read at a normal working distance. Interestingly, the mechanism by which the human eye is able to adjust focus has been debated for over 300 years. No previous theory has been put forth that can account for all the physical chang ER -