Chapters

• About/FAQ
• Book
  • 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