Vision Flashcards
What are the second order neurons in the retina?
Bipolar cell
What is the third order neuron in the retina?
Retinal ganglion cells
What do the retinal ganglion cells connect?
Retina to LGN
What are the interneurons of the retina?
- horizontal cells
- Amacrine cells
What supplies blood to the photoreceptors?
Choroidal vasculature
Are there any blood vessels in the fovea?
no
In their normal state, are photoreceptors depolarized or hyperpolerized? Why?
Depolarized
-more open Na channels, increased Na conductivity
What does light do to photoreceptor?
- decrease cGMP
- closes cGMP dependent Na channels
- Cell hyperpolarizes, graded
What is the main function of the retinal pigmented epithelium?
- phagocytose the most apical outer segment discs of photoreceptors and recycle
- Rods and cones produce about 100 new discs each every day
What are the 5 functions of the Retinal pigmented epithelium?
- Form the blood/PR barrier
- Daily phagocytosis of outer segment discs
- Vitamin A metabolism – reisomerize from trans back to cis
- Melanin production to allow for high acuity
- High density of melanosomes and microvilli around cones – directional
- Low density of melanosomes and microvilli around rods – scatter - Neovascular barrier to prevent choroidal vasculature from entering the subretinal space
Close to _____ ratio of cone to retinal ganglion cell at the fovea.
1:1
Genes for long and middle wavelength opsins are tightly linked on the _____ chromosome.
X
What does the dorsal stream process?
“Where”
What does the ventral stream process?
“What”
What is an agnosia?
-failure of recognition
What is an apraxia?
- failure to execute learned purposeful movements
e. g. inability to fixate in visual space
What is a scotoma?
- Areas of blindness resulting from damage to V1
- Blind in corresponding contralateral visual field of both eyes
Which layer do neurons of the LGN input to in V1?
Layer 4 = simple cells
Which layer of V1 are simple cells located?
Layer 4
Which layer of V1 are complex cells located?
Layer 2/3
Tonic Pupils = _____
sector iridoplegia (vermiform)
What are versions?
-binocular movements in the same direction
=saccades & smooth pursuit
What is supraversion?
Up gaze
What is infraversion?
down gaze