ReviewCureus2021
Pseudomyopia and Its Association With Anxiety.
Review in Cureus, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 23 citations in OpenAlex.
- Bidirectional Relationship Between Myopia and Mental Disorders.Depression and anxiety · 2025Pooled it
- The impact of physical exercise with additional visual tasks on UDVA and accommodation sensitivity in children: the mediating role of kinetic visual acuity.Frontiers in public health · 2024Trial
- Effect of physical activity combined with extra ciliary-muscle training on visual acuity of children aged 10-11.Frontiers in public health · 2022Trial
- PSEUDOMYOPIA IN YOUNG ADULTS, A REPORT OF THREE CASES FROM A SINGLE TERTIARY FACILITY IN IBADAN, NIGERIA.Annals of Ibadan postgraduate medicine · 2026Article
- Myopia and daylight-A combination of factors.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Article
- Evaluation of the Prevalence of Refractive Defects and Ocular Function in a Group of 1518 Children Aged 8 Years in Northwestern Poland-A Retrospective Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- Nexus of ocular motility and dry eye.Indian journal of ophthalmology · 2023Article
- Ultrasound biomicroscopy study of accommodative state in Smartphone abusers.BMC ophthalmology · 2022Article
- Pseudomyopia: A Review.Vision (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Quality of Life and Anxiety in Age Macular Degeneration Patients: A Cross-Sectional Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Observational
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8 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
Pseudomyopia is an inappropriately excessive accommodation of the eye due to overstimulation or ciliary spasm, which leads to a marked approximation of the far point. Common symptoms of pseudomyopia include eye strain or fatigue, and it is classified as organic or functional. The latter is due to eye strain and functional increase in the ciliary tonus. Pseudomyopia can vary from being a transient condition or continue to progress to myopia. Head trauma is the most common cause followed by psychiatric illnesses, neurologic diseases, and drug-induced causes. There is an association between psychological stress-inducing events and pseudomyopia as it affects the autonomic nervous system. The human body counteracts anxiety by activating the parasympathetic nervous system, causing ciliary muscle contraction. Underlying psychiatric diseases in pseudomyopia patients have been reported in the past in multiple studies. Generalized anxiety disorder is the most common psychiatric illness associated with pseudomyopia with a positive correlation between anxiety-somatization scores and accommodation amount of the eye. It is strongly advised that a psychiatric consultation should be included in the multidisciplinary evaluation of every case. If patients have coexisting anxiety disorders, a multidisciplinary approach using psychiatric consultations, work environment changes, ocular exercises, and cycloplegic drugs can be used. This review aims to shed light on the association of psychiatric disorders such as anxiety with pseudomyopia.
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