Scientists

Kenneth Alexander, PhD  

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Kenneth R. Alexander, PhD

Professor
Director, Laboratory of Clinical
Psychophysics and Electrophysiology


Email

 

kennalex@uic.edu

Phone

 

312-996-5825

Fax

 

312-996-7770

Office

 

Eye & Ear Infirmary, Room 3.79

US Mail

 

University of Illinois at Chicago
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
1855 W. Taylor Street M/C 648
Chicago, IL 60612

Research Interests

Development of noninvasive techniques for evaluating the pathophysiology and progression of retinal degenerations

Education

1972 - 1973

NIH Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Visual Science, University of Rochester

1972

PhD University of Washington

1968

MS University of Washington

1967

BS University of Washington

UIC Appointments

1994 - present

Professor, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago

2002 - present

Adjunct Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago

2006 - present

Adjunct Professor, Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Chicago

Clinical Psychophysics Laboratory

Representative Publications
McAnany, J.J., Alexander, K.R. (2009) Is there an omitted stimulus response in the human cone flicker electroretinogram? Visual Neuroscience, 26, 189-194.

Alexander, K.R., McAnany, J.J. (2010) Determinants of contrast sensitivity for the tumbling E and Landolt C. Optometry and Vision Science, 87, 28-36.

Shah, M.R., Alexander, K.R., Ripps, H., Qian, H. (2010) Characteristics of period doubling in the rat cone flicker ERG. Experimental Eye Research, 90, 196-202.

McAnany, J.J., Alexander, K.R. (2010) Spatial contrast sensitivity in dynamic and static additive luminance noise. Vision Research, 50, 1957-1965.

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