Combined Optical Stimulation and Electrical Recording in in Vivo Neuromodulation
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Processes in Biological Vision
PROCESSES IN BIOLOGICAL VISION: including, ELECTROCHEMISTRY OF THE NEURON This material is excerpted from the full β-version of the text. The final printed version will be more concise due to further editing and economical constraints. A Table of Contents and an index are located at the end of this paper. James T. Fulton Vision Concepts [email protected]/vision April 30, 2017 Copyright 2000 James T. Fulton Environment & Coordinates 2- 1 2. Environment, Coordinate Reference System and First Order Operation 1 The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names. - Chinese Proverb The process of communication involves a mutual agreement on the meaning of words. - Charley Halsted, 1993 [xxx rationalize azure versus aqua before publishing ] The environment of the eye can be explored from several points of view; its radiation environment, its thermo- mechanical environment, its energy supply environment and its output signal environment. To discuss the operation of the eye in such environments, establishing certain coordinate systems, functional relationships and methods of notation is important. That is the purpose of this chapter. The reader is referred to the original source for more details on the environment and the coordinate systems. Extensive references are provided for this purpose. Details relative to the various functional operations in vision will be explored in the chapters to follow. Because of the unique integration of many processes by the photoreceptor cells of the retina, which are explored individually in different chapters, a brief section is included here to coordinate this range of material. 2.1 Physical Environment The study of the visual system requires exploring a great many parameters from a variety of perspectives. -
Human Physiology an Integrated Approach
Sensory Physiology General Properties of Sensory Systems 10 Receptors Are Sensitive to Particular Forms of Energy Sensory Transduction Converts Stimuli into Graded Potentials A Sensory Neuron Has a Receptive Field The CNS Integrates Sensory Information Coding and Processing Distinguish Stimulus Properties Somatic Senses Pathways for Somatic Perception Project to the Cortex and Cerebellum Touch Receptors Respond to Many Diff erent Stimuli Temperature Receptors Are Free Nerve Endings Nociceptors Initiate Protective Responses Pain and Itching Are Mediated by Nociceptors Chemoreception: Smell and Taste Olfaction Is One of the Oldest Senses Taste Is a Combination of Five Basic Sensations Taste Transduction Uses Receptors and Channels The Ear: Hearing Hearing Is Our Perception of Sound Sound Transduction Is a Multistep Process The Cochlea Is Filled with Fluid Sounds Are Processed First in the Cochlea Auditory Pathways Project to the Auditory Cortex Hearing Loss May Result from Mechanical or Neural Damage Nature does not The Ear: Equilibrium communicate with The Vestibular Apparatus Provides Information about Movement man by sending and Position encoded messages. The Semicircular Canals Sense Rotational Acceleration — Oscar Hechter, in Biology The Otolith Organs Sense Linear Acceleration and Head Position and Medicine into the Equilibrium Pathways Project Primarily to the Cerebellum 21st Century, 1991 The Eye and Vision The Skull Protects the Eye Background Basics Light Enters the Eye through the Pupil The Lens Focuses Light on the Retina Summation Phototransduction Occurs at the Retina Second messenger systems Photoreceptors Transduce Light into Electrical Signals Threshold Signal Processing Begins in the Retina G proteins Plasticity Tonic control Membrane potential Graded potentials Neurotransmitter Vestibular release hair cells From Chapter 10 of Human Physiology: An Integrated Approach, Sixth Edition. -
Impact of Visual Callosal Pathway Is Dependent Upon Ipsilateral Thalamus ✉ Vishnudev Ramachandra1, Verena Pawlak1, Damian J
ARTICLE https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15672-4 OPEN Impact of visual callosal pathway is dependent upon ipsilateral thalamus ✉ Vishnudev Ramachandra1, Verena Pawlak1, Damian J. Wallace1 & Jason N. D. Kerr1 The visual callosal pathway, which reciprocally connects the primary visual cortices, is thought to play a pivotal role in cortical binocular processing. In rodents, the functional role of this pathway is largely unknown. Here, we measure visual cortex spiking responses to visual 1234567890():,; stimulation using population calcium imaging and functionally isolate visual pathways origi- nating from either eye. We show that callosal pathway inhibition significantly reduced spiking responses in binocular and monocular neurons and abolished spiking in many cases. How- ever, once isolated by blocking ipsilateral visual thalamus, callosal pathway activation alone is not sufficient to drive evoked cortical responses. We show that the visual callosal pathway relays activity from both eyes via both ipsilateral and contralateral visual pathways to monocular and binocular neurons and works in concert with ipsilateral thalamus in generating stimulus evoked activity. This shows a much greater role of the rodent callosal pathway in cortical processing than previously thought. ✉ 1 Department of Behavior and Brain Organization, Research Center caesar, 53175 Bonn, Germany. email: [email protected] NATURE COMMUNICATIONS | (2020) 11:1889 | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15672-4 | www.nature.com/naturecommunications 1 ARTICLE NATURE COMMUNICATIONS | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15672-4 t the earliest stages of cortical visual processing visually show that while blocking this pathway significantly reduced Aresponsive neurons can be divided into those only spiking across neuronal populations, the callosal projection alone responsive to one eye (monocular neurons) and those was not capable of driving suprathreshold activity in V1 neurons, responsive to both eyes (binocular neurons). -
Visual Pathway Simulation
Visual Pathway Simulation by Anwer Alkaabi A Thesis Presented to Sharif University of Technology, International Campus, Kish Island in partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Computer Engineering Supervisor: Dr. Hussain Peyvandi Kish Island, Iran, 2020 Anwer Alkaabi, 2020 Sharif University of Technology International Campus, Kish Island This is to certify that the Thesis Prepared, By: Anwer Alkaabi Entitled: Visual Pathway Simulation and submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Science complies with the regulation of this university and meets the accepted standards with respect to originality and quality. Signed by the final examining committee: Supervisor: Co-Supervisor: External Examiner: Internal Examiner: Session Chair: ii AUTHOR'S DECLARATION I declare that I am the sole author of this thesis. The work described in this thesis has not been previously submitted for a degree in this or any other university. All and any contributions by others are cited. This is a true copy of the thesis, including any required final revisions, as accepted by my examiners. I understand that my thesis may be made electronically available to the public. iii Abstract Visual Pathway Simulation Anwer Alkaabi, M.Sc. Sharif University of Technology, International Campus, Kish Island, 2020 Supervisor: Dr. Hussain Peyvandi It should be a concise statement of the nature and content of the thesis. The text must be double-spaced. Abstracts should be limited to one page, when possible. No references, tables and Figures are allowed within the abstract. iv Acknowledgements Enter acknowledgements here. v Dedication If no dedication page is included, the Table of Contents should start at page v. -
Neural Mechanisms of Binocular Motion in Depth Perception
Neural mechanisms of binocular motion in depth perception Milena Kaestner PhD University of York Psychology May 2018 1 2 Abstract Motion in depth (MID) can be cued by two binocular sources of information. These are changes in retinal disparity over time (changing disparity, CD), and binocular opponent velocity vectors (inter-ocular velocity difference, IOVD). This thesis presents a series of psychophysical and fMRI experiments investigating the neural pathways supporting the perception of CD and IOVD. The first two experiments investigated how CD and IOVD mechanisms draw on information encoded in the magnocellular, parvocellular and koniocellular pathways. The chromaticity of CD and IOVD-isolating stimuli was manipulated to bias activity in these three pathways. Although all stimulus types and chromaticities supported a MID percept, fMRI revealed an especially dominant koniocellular contribution to the IOVD mechanism. Because IOVD depends on eye-specific velocity signals, experiment three sought to identify an area in the brain that encodes motion direction and eye of origin information. Classification and multivariate pattern analysis techniques were applied to fMRI data, but no area where both types of information were present simultaneously was identified. Results suggested that IOVD mechanisms inherit eye-specific information from V1. Finally, experiment four asked whether activity elicited by CD and IOVD stimuli could also be modulated by an attentional task where participants were asked to detect changes in MID or local contrast. fMRI activity was strongly modulated by attentional state, and activity in motion-selective areas was predictive of whether participants correctly identified the change in CD or IOVD MID. This suggests that these areas contain populations of neurons that are crucial for detecting, and behaviourally responding to, both types of MID.