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A new cause for difficulty in seeing at night

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A syndrome is described in which patients complain of inability to see at night, although their rod and cone thresholds are normal. In such persons the rods, when dark-adapted, elevate cone flicker thresholds by 2 log units or more, and this condition is the basis of their complaint. Patients are often thought to be hysterics or to have congenital stationary night blindness.

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  1. Department of Clinical Ophthalmology, Institute of Ophthalmology, Judd St., London, W.C.I, England

    G. B. Arden & C. R. Hogg

  2. Electrodiagnostic Department, Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, England

    G. B. Arden & C. R. Hogg

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Arden, G.B., Hogg, C.R. A new cause for difficulty in seeing at night. Doc Ophthalmol 60, 121–125 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00158026

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