How does the brain make connections, and how does it maintain them? Cambridge neuroscientists and mathematicians are using a variety of techniques to understand how the brain 'wires up', and what it might be able to tell ...
Feb 5, 2016
0
98
Tübingen researchers have shown that image processing in the eye is more extensive than previously thought. They investigated the channels that transmit information from the eye to the brain. In the course of this investigation, ...
Jan 7, 2016
0
111
Johns Hopkins researchers have developed a method to efficiently turn human stem cells into retinal ganglion cells, the type of nerve cells located within the retina that transmit visual signals from the eye to the brain. ...
Nov 30, 2015
0
237
Scientists at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have elucidated a genetic interaction that may prove key to the development and progression of glaucoma, a blinding neurodegenerative disease that affects ...
Sep 10, 2015
0
35
When we move our head, the whole visual world moves across our eyes. Yet we can still make out a bee buzzing by or a hawk flying overhead, thanks to unique cells in the eye called object motion sensors. A new study on mice ...
Aug 31, 2015
0
38
Neuroscientists know that some connections in the brain are pruned through neural development. Function gives rise to structure, according to the textbooks. But scientists at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute ...
Aug 27, 2015
0
1517
Driving a car at 40 mph, you see a child dart into the street. You hit the brakes. Disaster averted.
Jun 17, 2015
0
113
It's a question that seems to offer tantalizing hope to those suffering from vision impairment. Why is it that when the optic nerve is damaged—either through trauma or disease—few of its neurons survive and fewer still ...
May 5, 2015
0
97
University at Buffalo researchers have discovered what regulates generation of the early neurons in the retina during embryonic development. The findings provide clues to how cellular diversity is created in the central nervous ...
Oct 30, 2014
0
0
In laboratory tests, researchers have used electrical stimulation of retinal cells to produce the same patterns of activity that occur when the retina sees a moving object. Although more work remains, this is a step toward ...
Jun 5, 2014
0
0
