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 ...

Many thousands of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) have to relay signals through the eye's optic nerve via delicate projections, or axons, to precise locations on both sides of the brain that make ...

The optic nerve head in the back of the eye is where the axons, or arms, of the retinal ganglion cells come together and exit the eye and reach to the brain.The scientists focused on hard-to-study ...

In fact, common retinal injuries generated by Covid-19, such optic nerve swelling and lesions in the ganglion cell layer, seem to be linked to retinal ganglion cells damage.

In the perspective article written by Prof Alan Harvey, from School of Anatomy, Physiology and Human Biology, The University of Western Australia, he summarized recent gene therapy research from his ...

These axons extend from the retina to the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) and make up the majority of the retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL), optic nerve, optic chiasm and optic tract.

When OSK was expressed in damaged retinal ganglion cells for up to 12 to 20 weeks, their axons partially regenerated, with some axons extending as far as the optic chiasm.

During 2022, Gamm and UW–Madison collaborators published studies showing that dish-grown retinal cells called photoreceptors respond like those in a healthy retina to different wavelengths and ...

The ganglion cells whose axons fail to cross at the midline are found in the most ventrotemporal part of the retina. Williams and colleagues found that these cells specifically express a ...

More information: Johan Westö et al, Retinal OFF ganglion cells allow detection of quantal shadows at starlight, Current Biology (2022). DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2022.04.092 ...