Advances in Visual Neuroscience
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Applied Neuroscience and Neural Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2023) | Viewed by 1423
Special Issue Editor
Interests: retina; neurodegeneration; neuroprotection; retinal pigment epithelium; retinal function; age related macular degeneration; retinal organoids; hESCs; iPSCs
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Visual neuroscience is a branch of neuroscience that focuses on the visual system of the human body, mainly located in the eye and brain’s visual cortex. The main goal of visual neuroscience is to understand how neural activity results in the final visual perception, from the time when light stimuli hit the retina to the visual perception of the surroundings. Vision perception is a sense related to retinal function, where retinal photoreceptors, bipolar and horizontal cells, and retinal ganglion cells that form the optic nerve are interconnected and supported by the retinal pigment epithelium and the downstream neurons in the visual cortex.
This Special Issue will cover recent research advances in all aspects of vision neurosciences.
In particular, the topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Visual system;
- Visual impairment;
- Visual disfunction;
- Blindness;
- Neurophysiology;
- Sensory system;
- Eye;
- Retinal development;
- Retinal organoid;
- Photoreceptors;
- Cell therapies, including stem cell therapy;
- Optogenetics;
- Gene therapy.
Dr. Darin Zerti
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- retina
- neurodegeneration
- ophthalmology
- vision
- neurosciences
- neuroprotection
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