Dr Janet Wolf

Senior Research Fellow

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 0207 040 5060

j.e.wolf@city.ac.uk 

 

Research interests

  • The alcohol electro-oculogram: analysis and clinical potential
  • Colour vision testing as a screening test for age-related maculopathy, and diabetic retinopathy
  • Retinal losses associated with dietary deficiencies.
  • Visual fields and driving

Selected Publications

  • Wolf JE, Lusty NG. (1994). Rotating stripes provide a simultaneous display of sustained and transient channels. Spatial Vision, 8, 369-379.
  • Wolf JE, Arden GB. (1996). Selective magnocellular damage in MAR: comparison with CSNB. Vision Research, 36: 2369-2379.
  • Wolf JE, Arden GB, Plant GT. (1996). Selective damage to either the "M" or "P" pathway in human retinal disease: implications for visual processing. European Journal of Ophthalmology, 6, 208-214.
  • Arden GB, Wolf JE and Tsang, Y. (1998). Does dark adaptation exacerbate diabetic retinopathy? Evidence and a linking hypothesis. Vision Research, 38,1723-1729
  • Barbur JL, Wolf J and Lennie P. (1998). Comparison of pupil response latencies and reaction times to colour, structure, light flux and motion. Proc. R. Soc. Lond, 265, 1-5
  • Arden GB, Wolf J, Berninger T, Hogg CH, Tzekov RT and Holder, GE. (1998)  S-cone ERGs elicited by a simple technique in normals and tritanopes. Vision Research, 39, 641-650.
  • Arden GB and Wolf JE, J. Collier, C. Wolff,  M.Rosenberg. (1999). Dark adaptation is impaired before photopic losses can be seen.  Can hypoxia of rods contribute to diabetic retinopathy?  Chapter in the bi-annual Proceedings of the VIII International Symposium on Retinal Degenerations: 305-316.
  • Arden GB ,Wolf JE  (1999)  Alcohol mimics the effect of light on the EOG,  Communication to the Physiogical Society. Journal of Physiol., 517.
  • Arden GB, Wolf JE (2000)  The human electro-oculogram: interaction of light and alcohol.  Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci . ;41:2722-2729
  • Arden GB, Wolf JE  (2000) The electro-oculographic responses to alcohol and light in a series of patients with Retinitis Pigmentosa. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci.  ;41:2730-2734
  •  Arden GB, Wolf JE, Berninger TE, Rudolph G, Singbartl F, Kampik A.  (2000) The effect of alcohol and light on the retinal pigment epithelium of normal subjects and patients with retinal dystrophies.    British Journal of Ophthalmology 8; 881-813.
  • Wolf JE, Arden GB. (2000)  Alcohol causes an EOG rise in normals, which is absent in patients with Retinitis Pigmentosa.  ARVO Abs. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 41:4745
  • Wolf JE, Arden GB, Karpik N. (2001) Positive and negative voltage changes produced by alcohol in the human RPE are provoked by 2 mechanisms with different characteristics. ARVO Abs Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci . 42 ;440
  • Wolf JE, Arden GB. (2002). The alcohol EOG and the underlying components. ARVO Abs.  Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 43;1825
  • Arden GB & Wolf JE (2003). Differential effects of light and alcohol on the electro-oculographic responses of patients with age-related macular disease. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 44,3226-3232.
  • Arden GB, Wolf JE & Messiter C (2003). Electrical activity in visual cortex  associated with combined auditory and visual stimulation in temporal sequences known to be associated with a visual illusion. Vis Res 43, 2469-2478.
  • Arden GB & Wolf JE.  (2004) Colour vision testing as an aid to diagnosis, management, and treatment of ARM. British Journal of Ophthalmology, 88, 1180-5.
  • Wolf JE & Arden GB (2004). Tritan thresholds of flashed optotypes are markedly elevated in patients with mild retinal changes associated with Age-related Maculopathy, but no loss of visual acuity. ARVO Abs.  Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 44;
  •  Wolf JE & Arden GB. (2004) Two components of the human alcohol electro-oculogram. Documenta Ophthalmologica, 109, 123-130.