Reference Links

Some web resources for mathematical modelling of biological systems and the pupil light reflex

Nonlinear dynamics

www.cnd.mcgill.ca/: The Centre for Nonlinear Dynamics in Physiology and Medicine, McGill University, Canada. Research on stability of Delay Differential Equations, bifurcations and the centre manifold, by Jacques Bélair, André Longtin, John Milton, Michael C. Mackey, Sue Ann Campbell et al.
www.cwi.nl/: CWI, the National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science in the Netherlands

The Visual System

webvision.med.utah.edu/: Webvision - The organization of the retina and the visual system, John Moran Eye Center, University of Utah

Pupil light reflex

www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/PUPIL/: Pupil Web - site maintained by Dr. Peter Howarth, Loughborough University UK
www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/hu/groups/viserg/viserg1.htm: VISERG, Visual Ergonomics Research Group, Department of Human Sciences, Loughbourough University, UK. Research on pupillary responses, by Dr. Peter Howarth et al.
www.nottingham.ac.uk/psychiatry/division/psychopharm.html: The Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, UK. Prof. Elemer Szabadi and Prof. Chris Bradshaw are using the pupillary light reflex as a model system for analyzing sympathetic/parasympathetic interactions.
uscneurosurgery.com/infonet/glossary/p/pupils.htm: The glossary Web page for the pupil, by the Department of Neurosurgery, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California.
www.richmondeye.com/apd.htm: Examination of the pupil light reflex at the Clinical Section, Richmond Eye Associates, relative afferent pupillary defect
www2.umist.ac.uk/optometry/dept/plainis/Discomfort_Glare.html: The Department of Optometry and Neuroscience, UMIST, Manchester, UK - Discomfort glare in connection with the pupillary hippus. Pupillary hippus is a name for some type of noise in the pupil response to light - fluctuations in pupil size under steady illumination conditions.
www.wpic.pitt.edu/research/biometrics/: The Biometrics Research Program, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Special Issue of the International Journal of Psychophysiology on pupillary function, cognition, and emotional processing.