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Image shows a the researcher putting an EEG onto a test subject.

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·April 19, 2016·3 min read

Brainprints? Researchers Can Identify Your Brain Waves With 100 Percent Accuracy

Researchers find individual brains react to images differently. The differences in neural activity was enough for computer systems to identify each person's 'brainprint' with 100 percent accuracy.

A VG3 amacrine cell (top, in green) is shown superimposed with an object motion detector cell (bottom, green). Each of the neurons is expressing sidekick-2, an adhesion molecule that allows the two neurons to find each other and connect. G: Nerve. Credit: Dr. Joshua R. Sanes.

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·August 31, 2015·6 min read

Built-In Delay Allows Us to See Small Moving Objects

A new study reveals how motion sensing neurons are linked to other cells in the eye.

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·June 20, 2018·5 min read

Can Psychological Stress Cause Vision Loss?

Researchers report persistent psychological stress can contribute to the development and progression of vision loss.

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·November 17, 2017·4 min read

Carefully Crafted Light Pulses Control Neuron Activity

Researchers use coherent control to control the function of a living cell.

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·August 15, 2018·5 min read

Category Learning Can Be Influenced By Where an Object is in Our Field of Vision

Where objects appear in a person's visual field can affect the ability to determine what the object is, researchers say.

This image shows a retina cross section from a healthy mouse.

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·August 25, 2014·3 min read

Changes in the Eye Can Predict Changes in the Brain

Researchers report retinal degeneration could be one of the earliest signs of FTD in people who have a genetic risk for the disorder.

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·July 26, 2022·4 min read

Changes in the Retina Can Be Linked to Parts of the Brain of Healthy Subjects at Risk of Alzheimer’s

In cognitively healthy people with a genetic risk for Alzheimer's, retinal changes have been associated with alterations in the entorhinal cortex, hippocampus, and lingual gyrus. Researchers say retinal changes can be used to track changes in brain structures associated with Alzheimer's in those with genetic risk factors.

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·July 25, 2012·4 min read

Chemical Makes Blind Mice See

A team of University of California, Berkeley, scientists in collaboration with researchers at the University of Munich and University of Washington, in Seattle, has discovered a chemical that temporarily restores some vision to blind mice, and is working on an improved compound that may someday allow people with degenerative blindness to see again.