The Organization of the Retina and Visual System

• Part I: Foundations
  • Introduction
  • Gross Anatomy of the Eye
  • Simple Anatomy of the Retina
• Part II: Anatomy and Physiology of the retina
  • The retinal pigment epithelium
  • Photoreceptors
  • Outer Plexiform Layer
  • Inner Plexiform Layer
  • Morphology and Circuitry of Ganglion Cells
  • Ganglion Cell Physiology
  • Melanopsin Ganglion Cells: A Bit of Fly in the Mammalian Eye
  • Glial cells of the Retina
• Part III: Retinal Circuits
  • Circuitry for Rod Signals Through The Retina
  • Cone Pathways through the Retina
  • Roles of Amacrine Cells
  • AII Amacrine Cells
  • Midget pathways of the primate retina underlie resolution and red green color opponency
  • S-Cone Pathways
  • Feedback Loops
• Part IV: Neurotransmitters in the Retina
  • Glycine Receptor Diversity in the Mammalian Retina
• Part V: Phototransduction and Photoreceptor Synaptic Pathways
  • Phototransduction in Rods and Cones
  • Glutamate and glutamate receptors in the vertebrate retina
  • Bipolar Cell Pathways in the Vertebrate Retina
  • GABAc Receptors in the Vertebrate Retina
  • S-Potentials and Horizontal Cells
• Part VI: Retinal Neurogenesis: Early stages in the development of neurons and pathways
  • Formation of Early Retinal Circuits in the Inner Plexiform Layer
  • Development of cell types and synaptic connections in the retina
  • Development of Retinal Ganglion Cell Dendritic Structure and Synaptic Connections
• Part VII: Color Vision
  • Color Vision
• Part VIII: Psychophysics of Vision
  • Psychophysics of Vision
  • Visual Acuity
  • Temporal Resolution
  • Light and Dark Adaptation
  • Color Perception
  • Space Perception
  • Perception of Depth
• Part IX: Brain Visual Areas
  • The Primary Visual Cortex
• Part X: Repair and Regeneration in the visual sytem
  • Regeneration in the Goldfish Visual System
  • Regeneration in the visual system of adult mammals
  • Fetal tissue allografts in the central visual system of rodents
• Part XI: Electrophysiology
  • Visually Evoked Potentials
  • The Electroretinogram: ERG
  • The Electroretinogram and Electro-oculogram: Clinical Applications
• Part XII: Cell biology of retinal degenerations
  • Cellular Remodeling in Mammalian Retina Induced by Retinal Detachment
  • Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD)
• Part XIII: Facts and Figures concerning the human retina
• Part XIV: Evolution of Phototransduction, Vertebrate Photoreceptors and Retina
  • Origin of Vertebrates and the Diversity of Extant Chordate Eyes

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