Natural molecule discovery could help glaucoma patients
Findings could lead to earlier detection and treatment for those suffering from the serious eye condition.
Aug 20, 2025
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Nervous System: News and Research on Retinal Neurons
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New insights into how the visual system synchronizes visual information
The human brain builds mental representations of the world based on the signals and information detected via the human senses. While we perceive simultaneously occurring sensory stimuli as being synchronized, the generation ...
Eye cells 'rewire' themselves when vision begins to fail, study finds
Scientists at the Jules Stein Eye Institute at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA have discovered that certain retinal cells can rewire themselves when vision begins to deteriorate in retinitis pigmentosa, a genetic ...
Jul 7, 2025
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The price of a peek: Retinal damage after the 2024 solar eclipse
On April 8, 2024, a once-in-a-lifetime total solar eclipse kept the eyes of millions of Quebecers riveted on the sky. But the experience left at least two among them—a 34-year-old man and a 17-year-old woman—with permanent ...
Jun 4, 2025
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Solving a mystery in vision science: Zebrafish study shows how retinal cells maintain spacing needed for optimal vision
In vertebrate retinas, specialized photoreceptors responsible for color vision (cone cells) arrange themselves in patterns known as the "cone mosaic." Researchers at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) ...
Mar 25, 2025
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Proteins in eye's nerve cells linked to Alzheimer's disease
An abnormal form of the tau protein found to accumulate in the brains of Alzheimer's disease patients also accumulates in the eyes of patients with the condition, according to new findings from Cedars-Sinai investigators.
Mar 4, 2025
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Eye told you so: Why illusions are all in the eye of the beholder
Our brain and eyes can play tricks on us—not least when it comes to the expanding hole illusion. A new computational model developed by Flinders University experts helps to explain how cells in the human retina make us "see" ...
Feb 14, 2025
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Retinal neurons provide insight into schizophrenia disease mechanisms
Researchers analyzed the genetic connection of retinal cells and several neuropsychiatric disorders. By combining different datasets, they found that schizophrenia risk genes were associated with specific neurons in the retina. ...
Jan 17, 2025
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Precision gene editing could prevent vision loss from Stargardt disease
Researchers have developed a therapy to treat Stargardt disease, the most common form of inherited macular degeneration, which often leads to vision loss. Their study shows promising results using a precise technique for ...
Jan 10, 2025
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Experiments show nerve cells of blind mice retain their visual function
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 falls on the retina, sensor ...
Nov 26, 2024
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