Vision loss has long been treated as a one-way street, a devastating endpoint rather than a problem the brain might quietly ...

Researchers at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience have become the first to fully characterize cell activity from a ...

It was once believed that mice had relatively poor vision. Turns out mice are far from blind – and studying how their vision ...

A closed-loop cortical implant generates functional percepts of shape, motion, and letters in two individuals with acquired ...

When one eye is deprived of vision early in life, it can lead to amblyopia, a condition more commonly known as lazy eye. This happens because a lack of input disrupts synapse formation in the brain's ...

Young minds are easily molded. Each new experience rewires a child's brain circuitry, adding and removing synaptic ...

Vision shapes behavior and, a new study by MIT neuroscientists finds, behavior and internal states shape vision. The new ...

Visual auras, like those that occur in migraines, may be signs of small injuries to the brain’s visual cortex, according to a clinical trial at UC San Francisco that tracked the appearance of these ...

The 1950s were a relatively rudimentary era for experimental neurophysiology. Recording the electrical activity of neurons wasn’t uncommon, but the methods often demanded considerable patience and ...