Irene E. Loewenfeld, PhD

Formerly Professor of Ophthalmology at Kresge Eye Institute, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan

DOD: 2009/10/09

Irene E. Loewenfeld Collection

Overview

Irene E. Lowenfeld, 1961The Irene E. Loewenfeld Neuro-Ophthalmology Collection contains a small set of Dr. Loewenfeld’s notes, which are color coded 4 x 6 cards, one card for every article referenced in her comprehensive textbook, The Pupil: Anatomy, Physiology and Clinical Applications, 1999.

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Collection

Table of Contents

  1. Anatomy and Physiology
    1. Reflex Integration: Physiologic Mechanisms
      1. Work on the relation between iris structure and pupillary movements
      2. Central nervous integration—cortex, thalamus, and hypothalamus: Literature reviewed
  2. Special Fields in Pupillary Physiology
  3. Methods
  4. Pupillary Pathology: Symptomatology
    1. Impairment of Sympathetic Pathways
      1. Cluster headache: Cases in Literature Reviewed
  5. Pupillary Pathology: Pupillary Signes in Various Diseases

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Biography

The following excerpts are from Dr. H. Stanley Thompson’s review of The Pupil: Anatomy, Physiology and Clinical Applications, Vols. I and II, by Irene E. Loewenfeld. Published in the American Journal of Ophthalmology, 1993, Vol. 116, No. 1:117-119.


Dr. Irene E. Loewenfeld and Dr. Otto Lowenstein sit in this undated photograph.“To say that this is ‘a long awaited book’ is an understatement of absolutely breath-taking magnitude. Dr. Loewenfeld has been trying to understand how the pupils work-night and day-for almost 50 years. Since 1963 she has been actively working on this book, and for the last ten years has done little else. She has produced an enormous work that is a treasure trove of information and enlightenment. Volume I has almost 1,600 page of text, figures, and tables.”

Dr. Irene E. Loewenfeld and Dr. Otto Lowenstein stand in an open courtyard in this undated photograph.“My first thought on holding this 11-pound volume in my hands was that it should have been divided into two volumes but Loewenfeld wanted the basic medical sciences and clinical medicine to come together in her book. She wanted the basic sciences to hold and read the clinical section, and she wanted the clinicians to understand the anatomy and physiology.”

“It is rare for a book to become available that speaks with such resounding authority, backed up by such a sparkling display of detailed knowledge. Such books usually summarize the life’s work of an active mind and they should be prized. The books of Stephen Polyak, Gordon Walls, and Frank Walsh come to mind. It is awesome to see Dr. Loewenfeld wade into the medical literature armed with the patience and courage of ten ordinary mortals. But it is not tenacity alone that makes her work so valuable; she reads so that she can understand, and when she’s got it, she passes it on to us in English that is beautifully clear and smooth, lively and economical. In the preface, Loewenfeld explains that she has written a few summary paragraphs for the beginning student at the front of each new section and marked them with a gray bar in the margin. Generations of students will be grateful for the extra effort she spent on these summaries.”

The Pupil

View Irene E. Loewenfeld’s textbook The Pupil:

The Pupil: Anatomy, Physiology, and Clinical Applications – Volume I
The Pupil: Anatomy, Physiology, and Clinical Applications – Volume II

Selected Works


The pupil : anatomy, physiology, and clinical applications
Author: Loewenfeld, Irene E.; Lowenstein,
Otto.Publication: Ames : Iowa State University Press ; Detroit : Wayne
State University Press, 1993

The pupil : anatomy, physiology, and clinical applications
Author: Loewenfeld, Irene E.; Lowenstein,
Otto.Publication: Boston : Butterworth-Heinemann, 1999, 1993

Syphilis and the eye
Bernard Schwartz, editor; contributors: Thomas Behrendt et al.
Author: Behrendt, Thomas.; Loewenfeld, Irene
E.Publication: Baltimore, Williams & Wilkins, 1970

Pupillary movements during acute and chronic fatigue : a new test for the objective evaluation of tiredness
Author: Lowenstein, Otto.; Feinberg, Richard.;
Loewenfeld, Irene E.Publication: [S.l] : Federal Aviation Agency,
Office of Aviation Medicine, 1965, 1963

The pupil : anatomy, physiology, and clinical applications. Vol 1. Vol 2, Bibliography and index
Author: Loewenfeld, Irene E.; Lowenstein,
Otto.Publication: Ames : Iowa State University Press : Detroit : Wayne
State University Press, 1993

Mechanism of reflex dilatation of the pupil; historical review and experimental analysis
Author: Loewenfeld, Irene E.Publication:
‘s-Gravenhage, W. Junk 1958.


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Irene E. Loewenfeld Collection
(25 of 323 query results found)
[#] Thumbnail Image Title Date Setname Type
1 A Case of Raeder's Syndrome (Annotations) [not set] NOVEL - Irene E. Loewenfeld Pupil Collection Image
2 A Clinical Comparison of Cluster Headache and Migraine (Annotations) [not set] NOVEL - Irene E. Loewenfeld Pupil Collection Image
3 A Further Minute Analysis by Electric Stimulation of the So-Called Motor Region of the Cortex Cerebri in the Monkey (Macacus sinicus) 1888 NOVEL - Irene E. Loewenfeld Pupil Collection Text
4 A Further Minute Analysis by Electric Stimulation of the So-Called Motor Region of the Cortex Cerebri in the Monkey (Macacus sinicus) (Annotations) [not set] NOVEL - Irene E. Loewenfeld Pupil Collection Image
5 A Particular Variety of Headache (Annotations) [not set] NOVEL - Irene E. Loewenfeld Pupil Collection Image
6 A Record of Experiments on the Effects of Lesion of Different Regions of the Cerebral Hemispheres (Annotations) [not set] NOVEL - Irene E. Loewenfeld Pupil Collection Image
7 A Record of Experiments upon the Functions of the Cerebral Cortex (Annotations) [not set] NOVEL - Irene E. Loewenfeld Pupil Collection Image
8 A Record of Experiments upon the Functions of the Cerebral Cortex (Illustrations and Annotations) [not set] NOVEL - Irene E. Loewenfeld Pupil Collection Image
9 Acetylcholine in the Mechanism of Headaches of the Migraine Type (Annotations) [not set] NOVEL - Irene E. Loewenfeld Pupil Collection Image
10 Action Sur le Coeur de L'excitation Faradique d'un Lobe Anterieur du Cerveau, L'un des Pneumogastriques Etant Coupe (Annotations) [not set] NOVEL - Irene E. Loewenfeld Pupil Collection Image
11 Adrenergic Mydriasis in Horner's Syndrome. Hydroxy-Amphetamine Test for Diagnosis of Post-ganglionic Defects (Annotations) [not set] NOVEL - Irene E. Loewenfeld Pupil Collection Image
12 Adrenergic Nerves to the Eye and its Adnexa in Rabbit and Guinea-pig (Annotations) [not set] NOVEL - Irene E. Loewenfeld Pupil Collection Image
13 Amygdalotomy and Hypothalmamotomy -- A Comparative Study (Annotations) [not set] NOVEL - Irene E. Loewenfeld Pupil Collection Image
14 An Analysis of the Forces Determining the Size of the Pupil (Annotations) [not set] NOVEL - Irene E. Loewenfeld Pupil Collection Image
15 An Electron Microscopic Study of the Iris Stroma in Monkey and Rabbit with Particular Reference to Intercellular Contacts and Sympathetic Innervation of Anterior Layer Cells (Annotations) [not set] NOVEL - Irene E. Loewenfeld Pupil Collection Image
16 Apparent Shape and Size of the Pupil Viewed Obliquely (Illustrations and Annotations) [not set] NOVEL - Irene E. Loewenfeld Pupil Collection Image
17 Ascending Spinal Pathways of the Pupillo-dilator Fibres (Illustrations and Annotations) [not set] NOVEL - Irene E. Loewenfeld Pupil Collection Image
18 Beitrag zur Oberflächenstruktur des Pigementepithels der Menschlichen Iris (Annotations) [not set] NOVEL - Irene E. Loewenfeld Pupil Collection Image
19 Bemerkungen zum Bau der Gefasse und der Gefassscheiden in der Iris (Annotations) [not set] NOVEL - Irene E. Loewenfeld Pupil Collection Image
20 Beobachtungen an Einem Affen mit Verstuemmeltem Grosshirn 1899 NOVEL - Irene E. Loewenfeld Pupil Collection Text
21 Beobachtungen an Einem Affen mit Verstuemmeltem Grosshirn (Annotations) [not set] NOVEL - Irene E. Loewenfeld Pupil Collection Image
22 Beobachtungen und Analysen Mikrozirkulatorischer Vorgänge am Rattenauge. I. Ueber das Druckabhängige Verhalten der Irisgefässe (Annotations) [not set] NOVEL - Irene E. Loewenfeld Pupil Collection Image
23 Brainstem Loci for Sympathetic Activation of the Nictitating Membrane and Pupil in the Cat (Annotations) [not set] NOVEL - Irene E. Loewenfeld Pupil Collection Image
24 Card Tag Legend [not set] NOVEL - Irene E. Loewenfeld Pupil Collection Image
25 Card Tag Legend [not set] NOVEL - Irene E. Loewenfeld Pupil Collection Image

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