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The retina : an approachable part of the brain /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autor principal: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2012.
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| Edición: | Revised edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Approaches to the Brain
- Invertebrates: simpler nervous systems
- Vertebrates: the visual system
- The approachable retina
- Retinal development and evolution
- Retinal cells and information processing
- Cellular organization
- Classification of retinal neurons
- Retinal processing
- Ganglion cell receptive fields
- Wiring of the Retina
- Retinal synapses
- Other junctions
- Synaptic organization
- Glial Cells
- Comparative aspects of synaptic organization
- Generalized schemes of the synaptic organization of the vertebrate retina
- Neuronal Responses
- Intracellular recordings
- Functional organization of the retina
- Synaptic Mechanisms and Chemistry
- Distal retinal synaptic mechanisms
- Retinal neurotransmission
- Neuromodulation
- Photoreceptor Mechanisms and Visual Adaptation
- Discovery of the visual pigments
- Vision and vitamin A
- The action of light and visual pigment intermediates
- Regeneration of visual pigments
- Phototransduction
- Visual adaptation
- Color Vision
- Cones and color vision
- Evolution of color vision
- Color blindness
- Visual pigment gene families
- Neural processing color
- Color mechanisms in other species
- Retinal Degenerations, Electroretinography, and Genetics
- Nutritional night blindness and vitamin A deficiency
- Studying retinal degenerations: the electroretinogram
- Inherited retinal degenerations
- Animal models
- Conclusions
- Retinal and Brain Mechanisms
- Local-circuit neurons
- Graded-potential neurons
- Electrical coupling
- Neurotransmitters and neuromodulators
- Novel synaptic mechanisms
- Receptive field mechanisms
- Unsolved problems and the future
- Epilogue.