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She shares videos relating to her condition and has started a Facebook group for people suffering with Marcus Gunn Phenomenon. The group now has over 2,000 members.
A relative afferent pupillary defect (RAPD), also known as a Marcus Gunn pupil (after Robert Marcus Gunn), is a medical sign observed during the swinging-flashlight test [1] whereupon the patient's pupils excessively dilate when a bright light is swung from the unaffected eye to the affected eye. The affected eye still senses the light and ...
When the optic nerve is damaged, the sensory (afferent) stimulus sent to the midbrain is reduced. The pupil, responding less vigorously, dilates from its prior constricted state when the light is moved away from the unaffected eye and towards the affected eye. This response is a relative afferent pupillary defect (or Marcus Gunn pupil). [1]
Marcus Gunn phenomenon is an autosomal dominant condition with incomplete penetrance, in which nursing infants will have rhythmic upward jerking of their upper eyelid. This condition is characterized as a synkinesis : when two or more muscles that are independently innervated have either simultaneous or coordinated movements.
YouTubers Lucas and Marcus Dobre posted a video featuring Marcus faking his suicide as a "prank." Viewers criticized the twin brothers, and a suicide prevention charity labeled the joke "dangerous."
To settle the question of whether the AR pupil is of central or peripheral origin, it will be necessary to perform iris transillumination (or a magnified slit-lamp examination) in a substantial number of patients who have a pupillary light-near dissociation (with and without tonicity of the near reaction), perhaps in many parts of the world.
Gunn also fired back at critics of her green-and-yellow Australia team tracksuit with matching cap, posting on Instagram,"Looking forward to the same level of scrutiny on what the b-boys wear ...
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