Aimed at the practitioner or student of visual fields, the clinical focus of the book is oriented towards differential diagnosis and will assist the reader in identifying the site of a lesion. This textbook is a dynamic exploration of the relationship between the visual pathway and visual field impairments. Discussion of the normal visual field is included for comparative purposes. The emphasis is on detection and interpretation of visual field defects, rather than the background and psychophysics of visual field assessment. 2006. The structure of the book traces the visual pathway anatomically from front to back, and is supplemented by information on methodology and programme choice.