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The optic nerve is a primary reference for those ophthalmologists and researchers interested in its anatomy and physiology, in the most recent diagnostic techniques, as well as in the clinical management of optic nerve disorders. The book provides a detailed description of the structure and functioning of the optic nerve and attempts at clarifying how anomalies in its development are related with tumor development. The book surveys the most recent diagnostic techniques, such as spectral domain optical coherence tomography, and highlights how these techniques can be employed to evaluate optic nerve layers as well as lesions compressing the visual pathway. Practical references to optic nerve drusen and the changes in the optic nerve due to diabetic retinopathy are also presented. The book is written in a concise fashion and aims at being a major reference to a broad audience, including students, ophthalmologist consultants, neurologists, researchers, and surgeons concerned with optic nerve diseases.

Optic nerve. --- Nerves, Cranial --- Posterior segment (Eye) --- Visual pathways --- Life Sciences --- Neuroscience --- Neurobiology

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Considerable evidence exists that visual sensory information is analyzed simultaneously along two or more independent pathways. In the past two decades, researchers have extensively used the concept of parallel visual channels as a framework to direct their explorations of human vision. More recently, basic and clinical scientists have found such a dichotomy applicable to the way we organize our knowledge of visual development, higher order perception, and visual disorders, to name just a few. This volume attempts to provide a forum for gathering these different perspectives.

Visual pathways. --- Visual perception. --- Parallel processing (Electronic computers) --- Optical data processing.

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Building on the successful formula of the first edition, Martin Tovée offers a concise but detailed account of how the visual system is organised and functions to produce visual perception. He takes his readers from first principles; the structure and function of the eye and what happens when light enters, to how we see and process images, recognise patterns and faces, and through to the most recent discoveries in molecular genetics and brain imaging, and how they have uncovered a host of new advances in our understanding of how visual information is processed within the brain. Incorporating new material throughout, including almost 50 new images, every chapter has been updated to include the latest research, and culminates in helpful key points, which summarise the lessons learnt. This book is an invaluable course text for students within the fields of psychology, neuroscience, biology and physiology.

Vision. --- Visual perception. --- Visual pathways. --- Visual system --- Afferent pathways --- Vision --- Optics, Psychological --- Perception --- Visual discrimination --- Eyesight --- Seeing --- Sight --- Senses and sensation --- Blindfolds --- Eye --- Physiological optics --- Psychological aspects

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A comprehensive guide to current research, reflecting recent technical breakthroughs that have established the usefulness of the mouse model as part of a bilateral exchange between experimental and clinical research. Recent years have seen a burst of studies on the mouse eye and visual system, fueled in large part by the relatively recent ability to produce mice with precisely defined changes in gene sequence. Mouse models have contributed to a wide range of scientific breakthroughs for a number of ocular and neurological diseases and have allowed researchers to address fundamental issues that were difficult to approach with other experimental models. This comprehensive guide to current research captures the first wave of studies in the field, with fifty-nine chapters by leading scholars that demonstrate the usefulness of mouse models as a bridge between experimental and clinical research. The opening chapters introduce the mouse as a species and research model, discussing such topics as the mouse's evolutionary history and the mammalian visual system. Subsequent sections explore more specialized subjects, considering optics, psychophysics, and the visual behaviors of mice; the organization of the adult mouse eye and central visual system; the development of the mouse eye (including comparisons to human development); the development and plasticity of retinal projections and visuotopic maps; mouse models for human eye disease (including glaucoma and cataracts); and the application of advanced genomic technologies (including gene therapy and genetic knockouts) to the mouse visual system. Readers of this unique reference will see that the study of mouse models has already demonstrated real translational prowess in vision research.

Eye. --- Mice -- Sense organs. --- Visual pathways. --- Mice --- Eye --- Visual pathways --- Retina --- Ocular Physiological Phenomena --- Sense Organs --- Murinae --- Phenomena and Processes --- Face --- Head --- Anatomy --- Muridae --- Body Regions --- Rodentia --- Mammals --- Vertebrates --- Chordata --- Animals --- Eukaryota --- Organisms --- Zoology --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Sense organs --- Sense organs. --- Visual system --- Eyeball --- Eyes --- House mice --- House mouse --- Mouse --- Mus musculus --- Afferent pathways --- Vision --- Photoreceptors --- Rodents --- NEUROSCIENCE/General --- NEUROSCIENCE/Visual Neuroscience

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A comprehensive review of contemporary research in the vision sciences, reflecting the rapid advances of recent years.

Neurosciences. --- Vision. --- Visual cortex. --- Visual pathways. --- Visual system --- Afferent pathways --- Vision --- Area striata --- Striate area --- Striate cortex --- Occipital lobes --- Eyesight --- Seeing --- Sight --- Senses and sensation --- Blindfolds --- Eye --- Physiological optics --- Neural sciences --- Neurological sciences --- Neuroscience --- Medical sciences --- Nervous system