Is parallel visual processing a myth? A new study reveals that bipolar cells in the retina use electrical synapses to ...

Investigators the University of Michigan (UM) have used skin fibroblasts from patients with bipolar disorder (BD) to create the first-ever stem cell lines specific to the disorder. They coaxed patient ...

Bipolar disorder, also known as "manic-depressive illness," a brain disorder known to have afflicted the famous painter Vincent van Gogh, is characterized by recurrent episodes of mania and depression ...

A new Yale School of Medicine (YSM) study has uncovered surprising new details about how our eyes process what we see. When we look at something, our visual system breaks down different aspects of the ...

When Robin McCoy was 50, she was diagnosed with the disease that had taken her mother’s sight. McCoy had inherited a genetic mutation that causes retinitis pigmentosa (RP), a condition in which the ...

Rhythmic electrical activity in the retina (known as pathological oscillations) has been observed in several eye diseases, including congenital stationary night blindness (CSNB) and retinitis ...

Scientists at the Jules Stein Eye Institute at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA have discovered that certain retinal cells can rewire themselves when vision begins to deteriorate in ...

One of those genes encodes the enzyme DHDDS, part of the pathway that glycosylates proteins in higher cells. Retinitis pigmentosa from DHDDS mutations is called RP59. This is a recessive genetic ...

Scientists at the Jules Stein Eye Institute at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA have discovered that certain retinal cells can rewire themselves when vision begins to deteriorate in ...