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Current State of Accommodation Research

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By “accommodation” is understood the change of the eye's optical power to facilitate focusing on objects at different distances. Hermann von Helmholtz whose description of the accommodative mechanism from the year 1855 is still valid in all major parts wrote in his Handbook of Physio logical Optics: “There is no other portion of physiological optics where one finds so many differing and contradic tory ideas as concerns the accommodation of the eye where only recently in the most recent time have we actually made observations where previously everything was left to the play of hypotheses [1]”. Even nowadays, the mechanism of accommodation and the cause of presbyopia are a matter of controversial discussion, and a general consensus compris ing all the elements has not yet been reached.

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Baumeister, M., Kohnen, T. (2009). Current State of Accommodation Research. In: Kohnen, T., Koch, D.D. (eds) Cataract and Refractive Surgery. Essentials in Ophthalmology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-76380-2_8

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