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6- The Retina Flashcards

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1
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Where is the retina?

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At the back of the eye

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2
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How many cells are in the retina?

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100 million+

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3
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How does light reach photoreceptors in the retina?

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Light passes through overlying tissue

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What is the advantage of the inside-out arrangement in the retina?

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Pigmented epithelium below photoreceptors absorbs light that passes entirely through the retina that minimises light scattering

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What do photoreceptors do?

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Convert electromagnetic radiation to neural signals

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What are the two types of photoreceptors?

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Cones and rods

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What are the 3 main regions of photoreceptors?

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Outer segment, inner segment, synaptic terminal

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Where is there a higher ratio of rods to cones?

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In the peripheral retina

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Why are rods more sensitive to light?

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There is a higher ratio of photoreceptors to ganglion cells

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Where is the only place cones are found and why?

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At the fovea as they have a high acuity and low sensitivity

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Why is there more convergence in the rod system?

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Increasing sensitivity while decreasing acuity

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12
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What is phototransduction?

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The conversion of light to neural signals

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13
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What do rods and cones contain?

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Photosensitive pigment

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What does the absorption of photons of light by pigment generate?

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Electrical signal

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15
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What does the G protein-linked receptor respond to?

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Light rather than neurotransmitters

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What happens to Na+ channels in the dark?

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They partially open

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What happens to Na+ channels in the light?

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They close and rods hyperpolarise

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18
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How do the 3 different pigments in cones differ?

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Wavelengths and spectral sensitivity

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19
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How do we perceive colour?

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Through visible light in the electromagnetic spectrum

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20
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What is ability to perceive light dependent on?

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The information we are given

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21
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What are the 3 different types of cones in humans?

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Red, blue, green

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Vision in cones

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Photopic (daytime) and colour vision

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Main location of cones

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Fovea

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24
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Why do cones have high acuity?

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1 cone to 1 ganglion cell

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Vision in rods

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Scotopic (night time) and noncolour

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Main location of rods

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Periphery

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27
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Why do rods have low acuity?

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Many rods to 1 ganglion cell

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28
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What cells in the retina fire action potentials?

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Ganglion cells

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29
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How do other cells in the retina respond to stimulation?

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With graded changes in membrane potential

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30
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What is the direct pathway of ganglion cells to fire action potentials?

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Photoreceptor –> bipolar cell –> ganglion cell

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What happens after light hyperpolarises photoreceptor cells?

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They stop releasing glutamate to bipolar cells, which depolarise and release neurotransmitters to ganglion cells

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32
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How is the visual field mapped?

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Point-to-point on the retina

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33
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What lateral connections in the retina modify responses?

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Connections of horizontal and amacrine cells

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34
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100 million receptors are recoded to how many ganglion cells?

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1.25 million

35
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What does each receptive field for each ganglion cell do?

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Combines input from a number of photoreceptors

36
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When do cells in centre-surround receptive fields respond best?

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When there’s contrast

37
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2 types of retinal ganglion cells

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M-type and P-type

38
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What are the 3 differences between types of retinal ganglion cells?

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Appearance
Connectivity
Electrophysiological response properties

39
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Where is input to M-type cells primarily from?

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Rods

40
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Where is input to P-type cells primarily from?

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Cones

41
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What information does the retina extract?

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About differences in brightness/contrast and colour

42
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What is included in retinofugal projection? (7)

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  • Optic nerve
  • Optic chiasm
  • Lateral geniculate nuclei
  • Optic radiation
  • Primary visual cortex
  • Hypothalamus (nonthalamic)
  • Superior colliculus (nonthalamic)
43
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Role of the hypothalamus in retinofugal projection

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Biological rhythms control, including sleep and wakefulness

44
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Role of the superior colliculus in retinofugal projection

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Orients eye in response to new stimuli

45
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What is contralateral wiring?

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Left hemifield projects to right side of brain and vice versa

46
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Which axons cross and which stay ipsilateral?

A

Ganglion cell axons from nasal retina cross
Temporal retinal axons stay ipsilateral

47
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Where does information cross?

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At the optic chiasm

48
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What would a lesion in a visual hemifield mean?

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We lose parts of the visual field

49
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What would a lesion to the optic tract mean?

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We would lose information on a contralateral hemifield

50
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What type of structure is the lateral geniculate nucleus?

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Thalamic

51
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What is the first synaptic relay in the primary visual pathway?

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Lateral geniculate nucleus

52
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What is monocular input?

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Input from two eyes is kept separate

53
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What are receptive fields of the lateral geniculate nucleus similar to?

A

Ganglion cells

54
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What are neighbouring regions of the visual field processed by?

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By neighbouring regions of the visual cortex

55
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What areas is more of the cortex devoted to?

A

Areas of high acuity

56
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How is the retina stimulated?

A

By a point of light

57
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Where is the peak of the broad distribution of activity in the striate cortex?

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At the corresponding retinotopic location

58
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How are cells with same eye preferences grouped?

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Into ocular dominance columns

59
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What do cells within the same column share?

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The same ocular dominance and receptive fields in similar areas of the visual field

60
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What is the receptive field of a cortical visual neuron?

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The area of a visual field within which it is possible for a visual stimulus to influence firing of a given neuron

61
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What is orientation selectivity?

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Cells respond to particular orientation

62
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What is direction selectivity?

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Cells respond to direction of movement

63
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What is an orientation column?

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Orientation of nearby neurons is related

64
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What is a cortical module?

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Each module that is capable of analysing every aspect of portion of the visual field

65
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What do ocular dominance columns respond to?

A

Respond more to information from 1 eye

66
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3 things caused by damage to the primary visual cortex

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Scotomas, completion, and blinsight

67
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What is a scotoma?

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An area of blindness in the contralateral visual field due to damage to the primary visual cortex

68
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What is blindsight?

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A response to visual stimuli outside conscious awareness of ‘seeing’

69
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4 aspects of functional areas of the secondary and association visual cortex

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  • Neurons in each area respond to different visual cues
  • Lesions result in specific deficits
  • Anatomically distinct
  • Retinotopically organised
70
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What analysis is involved in the dorsal stream?

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Analysis of visual motion and visual control of action

71
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Where is area MT?

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In the temporal lobe

72
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How is the dorsal stream arranged?

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Into direction-of-motion columns

73
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What is akinetopsia?

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Motion blindness

74
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How is akinetopsia caused?

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Damage to middle temporal area of cortex

75
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What deficiency is implicated in akinetopsia?

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Deficiency in ability to see movement progress in normal smooth fashion

76
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What perception does the ventral stream control?

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Perception of the visual world and recognition of objects

77
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What does the area V4 control?

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Colour vision and shape perception

78
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What does damage to area V4 cause?

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Achromatopsia- partial or complete loss of colour vision

79
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What does damage to the fusiform gyrus (face area) cause?

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Prosopagnosia- inability to distinguish faces

80
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What is visual perception?

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Identifying and assigning meaning to objects

81
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What are retinal ganglion cells sensitive to?

A

Contrast and wavelength of light

82
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What is involved in the striate cortex?

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Orientation and direction selectivity, binocularity

83
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What response does the extrastriate cortical areas control?

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Selective responses to complex shapes

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