The lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) of the thalamus is the major subcortical relay of retinal input to the visual cortex. It plays important roles in visual perception and cognition and is closely ...

When one eye is deprived of vision early in life, it can lead to amblyopia, a condition more commonly known as lazy eye. This happens because a lack of input disrupts synapse formation in the brain's ...

SINCE their discovery 1–4, the effects of midbrain stimulation on excitability of the visual system have been studied extensively. Work on the squirrel monkey 5,6 has shown that the centrencephalic ...

A PROMINENT feature of synaptic transmission through the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) in the cat 1–3 and in the rat 4 is the large and prolonged depression of transmission which occurs following a ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 86, No. 10 (May 15, 1989), pp. 3911-3914 (4 pages) We used a passive, steady-state cable model to simulate current ...

Researchers at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience become the first to fully characterize cell activity from a little relay station in the centre of the human brain. This aids our understanding ...

This image shows the localization of the human lateral geniculate nucleus, using high-resolution functional MRI (orange) and anatomical MRI (green). Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not ...

Studies have shown that even a few hours of monocular deprivation can markedly improve the visual function of the deprived eye in adults. However, the underlying neural mechanisms of this ocular ...