Ocular Physiology
          Ocular physiology is well covered by Adler's Physiology of Eye. However, the book is heavy with animal experiments and does not give the candidate a good overview of the subject. Candidates are recommended to read the section on ocular physiology in either Guyton's Textbook of Physiology or Ophthalmology - Principles and Practice by Newell to gain a good overview before diving into Adler.
           
          • tear
              • production
              function and drainage
          • lacrimal gland
              • secretion
              innervation
          • light transmission and absorption
          • endothelium function
          • aqueous
              • production
              composition
               
          • pupils
              • innervation
              pathway of light and accommodation
               
          • ciliary body
              • accommodation
              aqueous production
               
          • lens
              • composition
              epithelium
              oxygen consumption
              glucose utilization
               
          • vitreous
              • collagen
              hyaluronic acids
               
          • retina
              • phototransduction
              rhodopsins
              cones
              rods
              dark current
               
          • RPE
              • function
              vitamin A metabolism
               
          • choroid: vasculature
          • visual pathway
              • X, Y and W cells
              magnocellular and parvocellular pathway,
              lateral geniculate body including functions of various layers
              visual cortex and its different layers including different cell types such as blob cells, complex cells and hypercomplex cells etc
               
          • ocular motility
              • primary, secondary and tertiary actions of various muscles
              Sherrington's law
              Herring's law
              saccade
              pursuit
              vergence movement
               
          • binocular vision
              • stereopsis
              amblyopia
               
          • visual acuity and contrast sensitivity
          • colour vision
              • protonopia
              deutropia
              tritanopia
              Ishihara
              Farnsworth-Munsell 100 Hue tests
               
          • adaptation
              • dark
              mesopic vision
              Purkinje's shift
               
          • electrophysiology
              • ERG
              EOG
              VEP (flash and flicker)
              scotopic vision
             
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