The lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN)
Growth dynamics in the developing lateral geniculate nucleus
... Ill Abstract. Binocularly segregated maps develop from stages where projections from the two eyes initially overlap. Differential growth of the lateral geniculate nucleus may regulate their ...
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Morphological differences in the lateral geniculate nucleus associated with dyslexia
... The cause of dyslexia is a subject of intense debate (e.g. Franceschini et al., 2012 ; Goswami, 2011 ; Stein, 2014 ; Vidyasagar and Pammer, 2010 ), and contradictory results may be found in the literature (e.g. Eden and ...
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Lateral Geniculate Nucleus: Anatomic and Functional Identification by Use of MR Imaging
... CONCLUSION: The excellent correspondence between the anatomically and functionally identified LGN confirms that MR imaging is an indispensable method for visualizing functional neuroanatomy in thalamic nuclei. The ...
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A Spiking Neural Network Model of the Lateral Geniculate Nucleus on the SpiNNaker Machine
... thalamic Lateral Geniculate Nucleus (LGN) developed on SpiNNaker, which is a state-of-the-art digital neuromorphic hardware built with very-low-power ARM ...
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The impact of the lateral geniculate nucleus and corticogeniculate interactions on efficient coding and higher-order visual object processing
... Sparseness Object recognition a b s t r a c t Principles of efficient coding suggest that the peripheral units of any sensory processing system are designed for efficient coding. The function of the lateral ...
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Quantification of the Human Lateral Geniculate Nucleus In Vivo Using MR Imaging Based on Morphometry: Volume Loss with Age
... ⫽ lateral geniculate nucleus; VDC ⫽ ventral diencephalon B eing a major visual relay station for information that trav- els from the retina to primary visual cortex, the LGN is the first stage at ...
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Feedback from V1 and inhibition from beyond the classical receptive field modulates the responses of neurons in the primate lateral geniculate nucleus
... the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) can be modulated by feedback from visual cortex, but it is still unclear how cortico-geniculate afferents regulate the flow of visual information to the ...
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Visualization of the Medial and Lateral Geniculate Nucleus on Phase Difference Enhanced Imaging
... medial geniculate nucleus and lateral geniculate nucleus, specifically the identification of their boundaries, for all ...medial geniculate nucleus and lateral ...
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Retinal-input-induced epigenetic dynamics in the developing mouse dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus
... Jianlin He 1† , Xiguang Xu 1,2† , Aboozar Monavarfeshani 2,3 , Sharmi Banerjee 1,4 , Michael A. Fox 2,3,5* and Hehuang Xie 1,2,6* Abstract DNA methylation plays important roles in the regulation of nervous system ...
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The neuronal structure of the dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus in the guinea pig: Golgi and Klüver-Barrera studies
... dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus (GLN) of the guinea pig the dominant types of neurons are the rounded nerve cells with numerous (4–7) dendritic trunks and the triangular ...
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Structural and functional analyses of the optic nerve and lateral geniculate nucleus in glaucoma
... Given the particular anatomical arrangement of the anterior visual pathway, retinal gan- glion cells axons from one eye partially decussate at the optic chiasm following a particular pat- tern,[60, 61] and synapse at the ...
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Relationship between cortical state and spiking activity in lateral geniculate nucleus of anaesthetised marmosets
... Nassi and Callaway, 2009). Visual signals are considered to travel in parallel on these three streams through the LGN en route to the visual cortex (V1), where cortical circuits can use these inputs to extract complex ...
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Assessment of Lateral Geniculate Nucleus Atrophy with 3T MR Imaging and Correlation with Clinical Stage of Glaucoma
... The LGN is a small nucleus located at the lateral part of the metathal- amus, with an internal geniculate nucleus inside. All measurements were made in consensus by 2 neuroradiologists who ...
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Towards building a more complex view of the lateral geniculate nucleus: Recent advances in understanding its role
... The lateral geniculate as a relay nucleus The LGN, interposed between retina and primary visual cortex, has traditionally been characterized as a “relay nucleus” joining the ...“relay ...
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Response characteristics in the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) and their primary afferent influences on the visual cortex of cat Florentin Wörgötter
... anatomical structure and the responses found in the LGN have a much higher complexity than originally expected from a "mere" relay nucleus. The tha- lamus plays a major role not only in relaying primary a ...
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Recovery from visual dysfunction following mild traumatic brain injury is associated with adaptive reorganization of retinal inputs to lateral geniculate nucleus in the mouse model utilizing central fluid percussion injury.
... retinal geniculate pathway, there is widespread loss of retinal inputs to dLGN relay neurons which then recovers over a period of time that correlates with recovery of function measured by studying visually evoked ...
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Saccadic Eye Movements Modulate Visual Responses in the Lateral Geniculate Nucleus
... Origin of the Effect This saccade-related variation of the gain of the visual response is not predicted by our current understanding of geniculate processing. It reflects an effect of sac- cades on either retinal ...
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Developmental remodeling of relay cells in the dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus in the absence of retinal input
... of relay cells, the nucleus assumes an adult-like profile by postnatal week 3 [25]. Our results in math5 −/− mutants indicate that the ab- sence of retinal innervation disrupts the normal growth and maturation of ...
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Monoclonal Antibody Cat-301 Identifies Y-Cells in the Dorsal Lateral Geniculate Nucleus of the Cat
... The truncated distribution of Cat-301 immunoreactivity prevented the visualization of the complete dendritic arbor; however, the morphology of cell bodies and proximal dendrit[r] ...
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The absence of retinal input disrupts the development of cholinergic brainstem projections in the mouse dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus
... In addition to regulating the rate of cholinergic innerv- ation of dLGN, we demonstrated that retinal input plays a role in establishing the thalamic trajectory of a subset of brainstem cholinergic axons. These axons, ...
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