The retina is a multilayered neural tissue that performs the initial stages of visual processing by transforming light into neural signals and organising them into parallel information channels. Six ...

Scientists from the John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah have achieved another first in the field of connectomics, which studies the synaptic connections between neurons. Moran’s Marclab ...

"I didn't think you people could make me cry," said Dr. Robert Marc, after hearing John A. Moran Eye Center CEO Randall J Olson, MD, tell a packed house that "the thought of Robert not being here is ...

My career has been devoted to understanding neural computation, both for its own sake and for the sake of making neural prosthesis that restore and augment human function. My specific research has ...

A treatment that targets dysfunctional photoreceptors regardless of the underlying genetic mutation leads to improved functional vision in advanced severe vision loss.

Cells within an injured mouse eye can be coaxed into regenerating neurons and those new neurons appear to integrate themselves into the eye's circuitry, new research shows. The findings potentially ...

Rhythmic electrical activity in the retina (known as pathological oscillations) has been observed in several eye diseases, including congenital stationary night blindness (CSNB) and retinitis ...

Prior investigations of rabbit and mouse retina have reported robust directionally selective retinal circuits impinging on directionally-selective ganglion cells (DSGC), while investigations of NHP ...

The retina is often referred to as an "outpost of the brain"—after all, important steps in visual signal processing do not take place in the cerebrum, but in the nerve cells in the eye. When light ...

The eye's light-sensing retina taps different circuits depending on whether it is generating image-forming vision or carrying out a non-vision function such as regulating pupil size or sleep/wake ...

A project at Shanghai's Fudan University has developed a new retinal prosthesis and used it to restore vision to a number of blind mice. Described in Science the implant is said to offer advantages ...