The goal of this SIG is to hear from researchers who use neuroimaging to understand what is happening in the brain of individuals with diseases related to “dry eye.” We hope that this multidisciplinary interaction can help us understand what is happening in the brain of individuals with ocular pain and help improve treatments, and to learn about neuroimaging as a tool to understand visual discomfort and ocular pain across multiple disease states.
Moderators
- Anat Galor: Do shared neural pathways underlie visual discomfort and ocular pain across various eye and systemic diseases?
- Eric Moulton: Neuroimaging as a tool to understand visual discomfort and ocular pain in individuals with ocular surface diseases
Speakers
- Scott Mist: Neuroimaging as a tool to understand visual discomfort and ocular pain in traumatic brain injury
- Jie Huang: Neuroimaging as a tool to understand visual discomfort and ocular pain in migraine
- Daniel Clauw: Neuroimaging as a tool to understand visual discomfort and ocular pain in fibromyalgia
Neuroimaging is a promising tool that can be applied to the study of visual discomfort and ocular pain, presenting features of various eye (e.g., dry eye, neuropathic ocular pain, retinal degenerations) and systemic (e.g., migraine, fibromyalgia, and traumatic brain injury) diseases. The goal of this SIG is to bring together a group of diverse researchers who utilize neuroimaging to investigate various conditions that share visual discomfort (e.g., photosensitivity) and ocular pain as common and overlapping symptoms. Topics covered will include: 1) the utility of neuroimaging to examine function and structure of neural pathways related to visual discomfort and ocular pain; 2) new developments and techniques in the field that can be applied to eye research; and 3) shared pathways across diseases which may explain overlapping phenotypes.