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NECO Master's Theses: 2005-present

Theses presented to the graduate faculty of New England College of Optometry in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science.

Master's Theses by Year Submitted

Temporal frequency response of the emmetropization mechanism in chicks to luminance flicker with and without blue light
Stephanie Britton, February 2018
The effect of aging on peripheral chromatic sensitivity
Maria Melina Coward, April 2018

Time-of-day influences on emmetropization: effects of visual stimuli, a dopamine agonist and choroidal growth factors
Kelsey Lynn Jordan, March 2017
Accommodation and lens deformation in the myopic eye
Jennifer L. Bruhns, April 2017
Binocular interactions during rapid alternating occlusion as measured with visual evoked potentials
Hilary Ann Hamer, April 2017
Effects of myopic defocus on ocular biometrics at different times of the day
Anne Nicolle Bertolet, April 2017
Blur perception and eye movements: relationship to refractive error
Lenna E. Walker, December 2017

Accuracy of the SPOT, a photoscreening device, for detecting refractive amblyogenic risk factors in preschoolers
Hilary L. Gaiser, March 2016
Peripheral vision, accommodation, and blur perception in myopia
Kristen Leigh Kerber, March 2016
Quality of functional vision through adjustable spectacles [FocusSpecs]
Ran He, May 2016
Indoor and outdoor eye movements in myopia
Amy Zhang, October 2016
A pilot study of short-term changes in ocular components in myopic and non-myopic young adults after light therapy
Laura Chan, December 2016

The effect of light intensity and accommodation on short-term ocular changes in myopes and emmetropes
Emma Chu, April 2015
Autonomic control of the emmetropization process in the chick
Laura A. Goldberg, April 2015
Efficacy of antibody delivery to the retina and optic nerve by topical administration
Stacy N. Hu, April 2015
Assessing the quality of functional vision through AdSpecs
Nadin Solaka, April 2015
Regional localization of binding and parsing in the brains of stroke patients using perceptual tests
Jameel Kanji, May 2015
Using molecular dynamics simulations to understand mechanisms of neovascularization in age-related macular degeneration
Jennifer A. Williams, July 2015

Measurement of the effects of biometrical factors on the peripheral refraction of emmetropic and myopic eyes
Maggie Xueying Dong, April 2014
Retinal nerve fiber layer thickness in glaucoma and Alzheimer's disease by spectral domain optical coherence tomography: a pilot study
Raymond Lester, April 2014
Collision judgments of patients with homonymous field defects
Kevin E. Houston, June 2014
Mechanisms of emmetropization : evidence that dopamine acts upstream of nitric oxide in the signaling cascade mediating ocular growth inhibition
Laimeng Lee, June 2014
The role of dopamine in eye growth responses to color and luminance flicker in chicks
Kevin K. Chuang, August 2014

Investigation of retinal characteristics in treated amblyopia
Lindsey A. Wetherby, March 2013
Investigation of the distribution of alpha-smooth muscle actin positive cells at collector channel ostia in normal human eyes
Kevin C.H. Chan, April 2013
Refractive group differences in outdoor activity in children and young adults
Kara E. Gerger, April 2013
Regional variation of perifoveal acuity, retinal thickness and retinal contour in myopia
Stephanie X. Shao, April 2013
Measurement of the photoreceptor pointing in the living chick eye
Maria K. Walker, May 2013
Optical and perceptual considerations when prescribing prisms for hemianopia
Nicole Christie Ross, July 2013
Muscarinic mechanisms : form deprivation vs. negative lenses
Yekaterina Yusupova, August 2013
Tactile-visual cross modal transfer after an extended period of congenital blindness
Sowmya Srinivas, November 2013
Age-related changes of ocular dimensions in white leghorn chicken with additional insights on an ocular hypertension model in the chicken
Jennifer L. Choi, December 2013

Optical quality and visual performance associated with daily soft contact lens wear
Sneha S. Kataria, May 2012
High resolution imaging of the chick retina using adaptive optics
Kenneth W. Headington, February 2012

Validity and repeatability of computerized visual acuity devices, SS II and Eva, for HOTV visual acuity measurements in young healthy adults under habitual-corrected and myopic-blur conditions
Elena Zaharova, February 2011

Differences in peripheral aberrations between emmetropes and myopes after a period of sustained near work
Christine E. Beck, April 2010
Axial, choroidal and refractive responses to myopic defocus induced by spectacle lenses versus prior form deprivation in chicks
Vandhana Sharda, May 2010
Imaging of retinal blood vessels in the assessment of Alzheimer disease and dementia risk
Nyssa A. Connell, May 2010
The relationship between diabetes mellitus and exfoliation syndrome in a United States veterans population: a case-control study
Sarah Dougherty Wood, May 2010
Retinal contour and peripheral aberrations: the effects of accommodation in different refractive error groups
Lee Johnson, May 2010
Eye shape and peripheral refractive error in the development of myopia
Kristen Totonelly, July 2010

Vision screening in preschoolers (VSP) study
Rajvinder K. Pabla, May 2009
Using corneal characteristics to predict corneal change in overnight orthokeratology
Kristin Ann Glavine, April 2009

Color, tilt, and the Hermann grid illusion
David Bradley Bodkin, April 2008
Efficacy of topical delivery of potentially therapeutic peptides and monoclonal antibodies to the posterior segment of the rat eye in eye drops versus PharmaLight technology
Candice Ann Robinson, May 2008
Field measures of refractive error
Kyla M. Smith, May 2008
Topically applied leptin accumulates in the eye and hypothalamus but does not influence food intake in rats
Paul Raymond Mayo II, May 2008
Effects of NOS inhibitors on emmetropization in chickens
Grace E. Lytle, June 2008

Vergence registration in the dark
Tam M. Nguyen, December 2007
Macular thickness in diabetic and non-diabetic veterans as measured by optical coherence tomography
Baharak Asefzadeh, September 2007

Effects of overnight orthokeratology on phoria, vergence, and accommodation in children
Andrew D. L. McLeod, May 2006
Further explorations of aqueous humour drainage in enucleated human and bovine eyes
Patrick A. Scott, May 2006

Compensation for the degraded retinal image within the human visual system: an investigation of contrast constancy for simple and complex stimuli
Bridget Clarissa Hendricks, May 2005
Characteristics of accommodative behavior during sustained periods of near work in humans and primates
Elise N. Harb, December 2005

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