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
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FeaturedNeuroscienceVisual Neuroscience·July 20, 2022·6 min readA New Way to Fight Pigmentary RetinopathyThe visual system adapts to the loss of photoreception by increasing sensitivity but simultaneously becomes deleteriously hyperactive. The findings could lead to new therapies to protect vision or reverse vision loss.Read More
FeaturedGeneticsNeuroscienceNeuroscience VideosVisual Neuroscience·October 14, 2018·6 min readDish Grown Human Retinas Explain How Color Vision DevelopsUsing human retinal tissue grown from stem cells, researchers shed light on how color vision develops. The study found thyroid hormones dictated whether the cells became blue, green or red photoreceptors.Read More
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FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience Articles·August 27, 2015·4 min readSurprising Data About Visual Connections in the Brain Revealed by ‘Brainbow’A new study contradicts other research which indicates neurodevelopment weeds out most of the connections between retinal ganglion axons and target cells in the brain.Read More
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