Visual Processing in the Inner Retina

Jun 29, 2024 by in OPHTHALMOLOGY Comments Off on Visual Processing in the Inner Retina

The bulk of the retina’s computing hardware is located in the inner retina. Here, dozens of neural circuits allow the retina to detect subtle changes in brightness, contrast, color, and…

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Development of Retinogeniculate Projections

Jun 29, 2024 by in OPHTHALMOLOGY Comments Off on Development of Retinogeniculate Projections

Introduction The dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus of the thalamus (LGN) is the gateway through which visual information is transmitted from the retina to the cortex; therefore, conscious visual perception relies…

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Extrastriate Visual Cortex

Jun 29, 2024 by in OPHTHALMOLOGY Comments Off on Extrastriate Visual Cortex

Introduction to the extrastriate cortex The goal in this chapter is to develop a basic understanding of the function of extrastriate cortex. This is a collection of brain regions concerned…

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Color Vision

Jun 29, 2024 by in OPHTHALMOLOGY Comments Off on Color Vision

The ability to perceive color is a highly valued sensory capacity, and it has been a subject of experimental inquiry for over 200 years. Before the development of modern biological…

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Ganglion-Cell Photoreceptors

Jun 29, 2024 by in OPHTHALMOLOGY Comments Off on Ganglion-Cell Photoreceptors

Overview Since the turn of this century, compelling evidence has emerged for a novel class of photoreceptors in the mammalian retina. These neurons are ganglion cells that express the photopigment…

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Optic Nerve

Jun 29, 2024 by in OPHTHALMOLOGY Comments Off on Optic Nerve

Introduction The optic nerves carry the axons of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs), and these axons transmit all the visual information from the inner retina to the brain. The retina and…

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Overview of the Central Visual Pathways

Jun 29, 2024 by in OPHTHALMOLOGY Comments Off on Overview of the Central Visual Pathways

The eye is a complex organ responsible for collecting, focusing, and processing light. Modern genetic analysis indicates that there are many different classes of ganglion cells in the retina that…

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Ocular Circulation

Jun 29, 2024 by in OPHTHALMOLOGY Comments Off on Ocular Circulation

The vascular system of the eye The vascular system transports oxygen and metabolites in the human body, ensures thermoregulation of the body and its organs, and is responsible for waste…

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Accommodation

Jun 29, 2024 by in OPHTHALMOLOGY Comments Off on Accommodation

Introduction “There is no other portion of physiological optics where one finds so many differing and contradictory ideas as concerns the accommodation of the eye, where in the most recent…

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