FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience ArticlesVisual Neuroscience·September 13, 2019·4 min readNew insights into how astrocytes help the brain process informationNoradrenaline is essential for astrocytes to respond to local stimulation.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceVisual Neuroscience·July 18, 2019·5 min readStimulating neurons to induce particular perceptions in mice’s mindsUsing optogenetics, researchers stimulated neurons in the visual cortex of mice to induce illusory images in the animals' minds.Read More
FeaturedGeneticsNeuroscienceVisual Neuroscience·July 8, 2019·3 min readRetina restructures itself after cell deathGene therapy can restore the structure of the retina and regain normal light responses.Read More
FeaturedNeurologyNeuroscienceVisual Neuroscience·June 17, 2019·4 min readImmune system can slow degenerative eye disease: Mouse studyStudy reveals C3, which can cause damage in some eye diseases, may help to slow the progression of retinitis pigmentosa.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceVisual Neuroscience·May 6, 2019·6 min readA brain region for Pokémon characters?Adults who played Pokemon video games as children had preferential activation in the visual system for Pokemon character, researchers report. The finding shed light on the development of the visual system and categorization in the brain.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience ArticlesVisual Neuroscience·April 28, 2019·4 min readMultitasking with perfection: Nerve cell works like 1400 individual cells – Fly StudyCT1 cells connect around 1400 areas in the fly brain. Each cell area works like a separate neuron, allowing CT1 to access information from the fly's eye and support local motion detection.Read More
FeaturedNeurologyNeuroscienceVisual Neuroscience·April 23, 2019·3 min readMicroglia, immune cells of the central nervous system, shown to regulate neuroinflammationIn uveitis, microglia facilitates the entry of inflammatory immune cells into the retina, enabling the host immune responses to attack cells not normally recognized by the immune system.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceVisual Neuroscience·February 22, 2019·5 min readHow the Brain Processes ImagesResearchers report signals from the retina are subjected to selective processing at the earliest neural way-station in the functional pathway connecting the retina to the visual cortex.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience ArticlesVisual Neuroscience·February 18, 2019·3 min readHeavy Smoking Can Damage VisionA new study reports those who smoke 20 or more cigarettes a day have a reduced ability to discriminate contrast and colors compared to non smokers.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience ArticlesVisual Neuroscience·January 28, 2019·5 min readTiny Eye Movements Affect How We See ContrastContrast sensitivity may be a result of small eye movements people may not be aware they are making, a new study reports.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience ArticlesVisual Neuroscience·January 3, 2019·7 min readSurprise Discovery Reveals Second Visual System in Cerebral Cortex: Mouse StudyA new study challenges 75 year old dogma of mammalian vision. Researchers have shows the post rhinal cortex obtains visual data from the superior colliculus and is not dependent upon information from primary visual cortex.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceVisual Neuroscience·November 26, 2018·5 min readNeural Code that Predicts Behavior IdentifiedDifferences in activity between the left and right superior colliculi help researchers predict whether an animal was seeing an event.Read More
