Ophthalmology ePosters

Within the broad theme of brain plasticity, this work explores a dimension that has not received as much research attention thus far - activity dependent changes in myelin. Myelin acts to speed up axonal conduction. Until recently, the dogma of the field was that myelination was part of a developmental program that…

Amblyopia is a developmental visual disorder of the cerebral cortex that compromises contrast sensitivity, spatial resolution, and shape perception (Kiorpes \& Movshon, 1996; Holmes \& Clarke, 2006). Based on recent studies (Pons et al., 2019; Najafian et al. 2022), we hypothesize that amblyopia differently affects ON…

Excessive capillary flow heterogeneity results in a microcirculatory dysfunction and hinders optimal oxygen delivery into central nervous system (CNS). Irregularities in cellular flow, like dynamic stalls in capillaries is a potential origin of this heterogeneity. Because under systemic inflammatory conditions…

Understanding the retina in health and disease is a key issue for neuroscience and neuroengineering applications such as retinal prostheses. Although the processing of visual information in the healthy retina has been studied in detail, no comprehensive computational model exists that captures the many cell-level and…

Understanding the retina in health and disease is a key issue for neuroscience and neuroengineering applications such as retinal prostheses. Although the processing of visual information in the healthy retina has been studied in detail, no comprehensive computational model exists that captures the many cell-level and…