Jacqueline Winterkorn Collection

Overview

The Jacqueline Winterkorn Neuro-Ophthalmology Collection contains lectures, images and video from her neuroanatomy teaching materials taught at Cornell.

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Anatomy and Physiology for the Neuro-Ophthalmologist

Ocular and neurologic examination

1. Evaluation of visual function

Neuro-Ophthalmic symptoms and signs

1. 1. Visual Loss
  2. Visual Hallucinations
  3. Normal and abnormal optic nerve
    1. Papilledema
    2. Pseudotumor Cerebri
  4. Nystagmus
  5. Lid findings
    1. Lid retraction
    2. Lid twitch

Disorders of the Afferent and Efferent Visual Pathways

1. 1. Diseases of the Retina
  2. Diseases of the Optic Nerve
    1. Optic Neuropathy
  3. Orbital pathology
    1. Inflammation/Infection
      1. Thyroid Eye Disease
  4. Eyelid position abnormalities
    1. Ptosis
      1. Bilateral Ptosis
      2. Ocular myasthenia
      3. Blepharospasm

Systemic, Neurologic, and Opthalmic Disorders Commonly Associated with Neuro-Ophthalmic Manifestations

1. 1. Developmental and congenital anomalies with neuro-ophthalmologic consequences
  2. Neurologic disorders commonly associated with neuro-ophthalmologic manifestations
    1. Vascular disease of the brain and the eye
    2. Neuro-muscular transmission deficits
      1. Myasthenia gravis
    3. Myopathies
  3. Ocular diseases commonly associated with- or mimicking neuro-ophthalmologic disorders
    1. Retinal Disorders

Procedures Commonly Performed/Obtained in Neuro-Ophthalmology

1. Tensilon Test

Career

Jacqueline Winterkorn, MD, PhD
Clinical Professor, Department of Ophthalmlogy
Weill Cornell Medicine
New York, NY

Education

Ph.D., Cornell University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, 1974
M.D., Cornell University Medical College, 1983
B.A., Barnard College

Links of Interest
Articles in PubMed

Biography

Jacqueline Winterkorn, MD, PhD Jacqueline Winterkorn taught neuroanatomy at Cornell and subsequently practiced and taught neuro-ophthalmology. She practiced neuro-ophthalmology on Long Island and at Cornell for nearly 25 years, training numerous classes of neurology and ophthalmology residents, publishing dozens of papers in medical journals, and caring for thousands of patients with neurological deficits related to the visual system. She continued her teaching and clinical work until the day she died.

Jacqueline Winterkorn Obituary