Visual defects Flashcards

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Pupil

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Opening that allows light to enter the eye, seems dark because of the light absorbing pigment epithelium in retina

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Iris

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Colour, 2 muscles - may vary in size

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Cornea

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Glassy transparent external surface of eye, lacks blood vessels, nourished by aqueous humour, continuous with sclera

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4
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Extraocular muscles

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3 pairs

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Conjuctiva

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Membrane that folds back from inside of eyes and attaches to sclera

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Optic nerve

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Carries axons from retina > brain

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Lens

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Transparent structure suspended by ligaments (zonule fibres), attached to ciliary muscles control shape of lens

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Vitreous humour

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Viscous jellylike substance, between lens and retina, keeps eye spherical

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9
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Retina

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Where light is transformed into neural activity (part of CNS)

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10
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Fovea

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Highest visual acuity, light can reach photoreceptors directly

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Refraction

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Bending of light rays,occurs when light passes from one transparent medium (air) to another (cornea), bends towards a line that is perpendicular to the border betwen media

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12
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As light passes through the cornea

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Light rays that strike curved surface of cornea bend so they converge on back of eye > retina

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13
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Closer images and refraction

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Require greater refractive power to bring them into focus, occurs by lens changing shape (accommodation)

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14
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Lens accomodation

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Rounding of lens increases curvature of lens surface and increases refractive power, ability to accomodate lens changes with age

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15
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Ciliary muscles

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Allow lens to change shape, contraction relieves tension of zonule fibres allowing it to become rounder

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16
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Emmetropic eye

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Normal - focuses parallel light rays on the retina without need for accommodation

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17
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Hyperopia

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Farsightedness

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18
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Farsightedness/hyperopia

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Eye too short, light focuses behind retina, convex lens used for refraction to allow near objects to be brought to focus

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19
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Myopia

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Nearsightedness

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20
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Nearsightedness/myopia

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Eyeball too long, parallel light rays converge before retina, concave lens refraction to allow distant objects to be brought into focus

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21
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Photorefractive keractectomy

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Corrective laser surgery, uses laser to reshape the cornea and increase/decrease amount of refraction possible

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22
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Macula

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Central vision

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23
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Fovea

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Central/thinner region of retina

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24
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Optic disc

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Origin of blood vessels, where optic nerve axons exit, blind spot

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25
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The retina

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  • Light is focused by cornea and lens > vitreous humour > retina
  • Pigment epithelium (behind retina), filed with melanin - absorbs light not absorbed by retina
  • Light passes through all retinal cells > photoreceptors
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26
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Photoreceptors - absorption occurs in

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Outer segments of photoreceptors (stack of membranous disks - light sensitive photopigments)

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27
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Photoreceptors transduce

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Light energy > changes in membrane potential

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28
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Cones

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Lower sensitivity, day light, colour, fast response, high acuity, concentrated in fovea, trichromatic

29
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Rods

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High sensitivity, more photopigment, high amplication, slower response, low acuity, not in fovea, lots of them connected to less neurones than cones

30
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Rhodoposin

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Pigment in rods (receptor protein - opsin)

31
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Scotopic

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Night time lighting

32
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Mesopic

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Twilight

33
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Photopic

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Daytime lighting

34
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Cone

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Three types of opsins (blue, green, red)

35
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Which colour has highest wavelength?

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Red

36
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Young-Helmholtz trichromatic theory

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When all cone types are equally active perceive white

37
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Trichromat

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Normal colour vision

38
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‘Alternate’ perception of colour

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Anomalous trichromat

39
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Dichromat

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Colour blindness

40
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Why is colourblindness more common in men?

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Genes for red and green pigments are carried on X chromosome

41
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Bipolar cells

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Create direct pathway from photoreceptors to ganglion cells

42
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Horizontal/amacrine

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Interneurone - indirect pathway modulators

43
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Retinal ganglion cells

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Axons leave eye > optic nerve

44
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Signal transduction in photoreceptors

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If light of correct wavelength hits photo receptor stop releasing neurotransmitter, stimulus is light of wrong wavelength/no light, GMP not able to open Na+ channels

45
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Bipolar cells

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On - depolarise in response to light
Off - depolarise in response to dark
Direct - input from receptive field centre
Indirect - input from receptive field surround

46
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Receptive field (RF)

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Area of retina that alters bipolar Vm in response to light

47
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RF ‘centre’

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Makes direct contact with bipolar

48
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RF ‘surround’

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Makes indirect contact with bipolar via horizontal cells

49
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On-centre bipolar cell (centre)

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  1. Light in centre
  2. Photoreceptor hyperpolarised
  3. Less glutamate released from photoreceptor
  4. mGluR6 on ON-bipolar surface less active allowing Na channel to open > depolarisation
50
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On-centre bipolar cell (surround)

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  1. Light in surround, dark in centre
  2. Photoreceptor in centre depolarised/surround hyperpolarised
  3. More glutamate released from centre photoreceptor/less from surround > horizontal cells hyperpolarised
  4. mGluR6 on ON-bipolar cell surface more active closing Na channel > hyperpolarisation/reduction in GABA release from horizontal cells > depolarised central photoreceptor (more bipolar cell hyperpolarisation)
51
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3 Types of retinal ganglion cells

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  1. Magnocellular (M-type)
  2. Parvocellular (P-type)
  3. Non-M non-P (K-type)
52
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Magnocellular

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Larger cell, 5%, large receptive field, important for detection of stimulus movement, connected to rod cells

53
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Parvocellular

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Smaller, 90%, sensitive to stimulus from fine detail, linked to cone cells (colour-opponent cells)

54
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Non-M non-P

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Medium cell type, 5%

55
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Ganglion cells are mainly responsive to

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Differences in illumination

56
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On-centre ganglion cell depolarised when

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Small spot of light projected into middle of receptive field

57
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Off-centre ganglion cell depolarised when

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Small dark spot presented to middle of its receptive field

58
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Colour-opponent ganglion cells

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Light of a particular wavelength in the centre of receptive field will be cancelled out by light of another wavelength in surround
(red-green and blue-yellow)

59
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Retinotopic organisation

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Info stays next to each other

60
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LGN projections

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Neurons of LGN project to visual cortex via optic radiation

61
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M channel

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Analysis of object motion (IVCa)

62
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P-IB channel

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Analysis of object shape (p cell project to IVCB)

63
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Blobs

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Analysis of object colour

64
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Orientation columns

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Simple and complex cells in layers 5 and 6 are orientation selective

65
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Ocular dominance columns

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Cells in layer IVC monocular - receive info from left/right eye

66
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Parallel pathways

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  1. Magnocellular (motion)
  2. Blob (colour)
  3. Parvo-interblob (shape)
67
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Striate cortex

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First region of visual processing in cortex

68
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Extrastriate visual processing

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  1. Striate cortex towards parietal lobe (visual motion)

2. Striate cortex towards temporal lobe (recognition of objects)