Almost exactly 500 years ago the Italian painter and inventor, Leonardo Da Vinci painted, what is said to be, one of the world’s truly great pieces of art - the Mona Lisa. Painted around 1502, it is ...

We are visual animals. More than one fourth of our cerebral cortex is sensitive primarily to visual stimulation and the long research interest has made it the best-known cortical system. Lesions of ...

THIS book is not a general treatise on vision, but in deals with some additions to visual physiology in the last fifteen years that have been derived from the study of action potentials of the retina ...

Christina Alma Elisabeth Enroth-Cugell, emeritus professor of biomedical engineering and neurobiology, passed away June 15 at age 96. She will be remembered as a renowned vision scientist, ...

Changes in vision are often a common sign of aging. If you sit in a dimly lit restaurant with anyone over the age of 60, ...

Researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA; CA, USA) have used a non-invasive imaging technique to visualize blood flow changes in the retina during migraines, revealing a ...

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