Primate retina trades single-photon detection for high-fidelity contrast encoding The neural mechanisms setting the lower limit of conscious visual perception in humans is not fully understood. Here the authors show by correlating human vision experiments and non-human primate retina recordings that primates rely on the retinal ON pathway in perception of the dimmest light increments, and that nonlinear thresholding in this pathway eliminates single photons and neural noise thereby allowing perception of minute differences in light intensity ..read more

Noninvasive imaging-guided ultrasonic neurostimulation with arbitrary 2D patterns and its application for high-quality vision restoration Researchers have developed a noninvasive retina prosthesis based on ultrasound for treating blindness. This device uses ultrasound waves to stimulate the retina, creating artificial vision confirmed through behavior tests, offering a safer alternative to invasive treatments ..read more

An ethologically relevant paradigm to assess defensive response to looming visual contrast stimuli ..read more

Development and organization of the retinal orientation selectivity map The functional organization rules of retinal orientation are not fully understood. Here the authors show that orientation detection, a crucial task for visual perception, is organized in the mouse retina along concentric axes, and that this organization develops even in the absence of visual experience or patterned spontaneous activity ..read more

Nerve fibre organisation in the human optic nerve and chiasm: what do we really know ..read more

Association between retinopathy and risk of dementia in a general Japanese population: the Hisayama Study ..read more

Association between retinopathy and risk of dementia in a general Japanese population: the Hisayama Study ..read more

Clinical characteristics and optical coherence tomography of concomitant macular hole and rhgematogenous retinal detachment ..read more

Prominin 1 is crucial for the early development of photoreceptor outer segments ..read more

POU6F2, a risk factor for glaucoma, myopia and dyslexia, labels specific populations of retinal ganglion cells ..read more