Imagine a ball bouncing down a flight of stairs. Now think about a cascade of water flowing down those same stairs. The ball and the water behave very differently, and it turns out that your brain has ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 117, No. 23 (June 9, 2020), pp. 13066-13077 (12 pages) Layer 6 (L6) is the sole purveyor of corticothalamic (CT) ...

Researchers at Neuro-Electronics Research Flanders (NERF), led by Prof. Vincent Bonin, have published two new studies uncovering how visual information is processed and distributed in the brain. The ...

Gene therapy with voretigene neparvovec-rzyl partially restores geniculostriate pathway function in LCA2 patients, improving visual processing. Initial LCA2 pathology shifts visual processing from the ...

Vision loss has long been treated as a one-way street, a devastating endpoint rather than a problem the brain might quietly ...

In the split second that is needed to view a stop sign and react to it, our brain navigates a complex process that transitions seamlessly from perception to action control. This ability to halt or ...

For generations, adults with amblyopia were told their vision loss was permanent, a childhood problem that medicine could not ...

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