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Neural component of the eye.

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  • designed to transduce a photon of light into something the nervous system will recognize (action potential)
  • transduced through chemical reactions into action potentials
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Primary (only) purpose of non-neural eye components.

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refract (bending) photons of light

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Non-neural components of the eye.

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cornea, aqueous chamber, lens, vitreous chamber/fluid, neural retina, fovea/macular region, ciliary muscle and lens, iris

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How does the cornea receive nutrients?

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tears (avascular - CN VII damage can cause cornea to dry out)

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Attach lens to ciliary muscles.

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zonular ligaments

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This helps maintain the shape of the eye.

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vitreous chamber

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Fovea Centralis

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where all photons of light are refracted to, greatest acuity

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Macula Lutea

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surrounds fovea centralis, yellowish in color b/c of protein lutein (filters out ultraviolet light and helps to protect the eye)

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Retina is an extension of the ___________.

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diencephalon (thalamus, hypothalamus, etc.)

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What occurs when the ciliary muscle fibers are relaxed?

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suspensory ligament/zonular ligament are taught, pulling on lens to elongate lens for focusing on distance vision

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What occurs when the ciliary muscle fibers are contracted?

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narrows aperture, allowing suspensory ligaments to be relaxed, thickening/rounding the lens for focusing on near vision

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Iris (two series of muscles)

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circular: sphincter pupilli (parasympathetic)

radially orientation: dilation of iris (sympathetic)

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Visible light

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between 400-700 nm in wavelength

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Round muscle around the border of the iris.

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ciliary muscle (CN III)

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Connect the photoreceptor cells to the retinal ganglion cells (output cells).

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bipolar cells

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Photoreceptor cells

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Rods (1) and Cones (3: red, blue, green)

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These cells spread info laterally rather than vertically.

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Horizontal Cells and Amacrine Cells

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Superficial: optic fiber layer

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axons of retinal ganglion cells

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Ganglion cell layer

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cell body of retinal ganglion cells

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Inner plexiform layer

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synapses are occurring between amacrine and bipolar cells with ganglion cells

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Inner nuclear layer

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cell heavy with cell bodies of bipolar cells, horizontal cells, and amacrine cells

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Outer plexiform layer

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cell free layer! synapses for horizontal, bipolar cells, and photoreceptor cells

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Outer nuclear layer

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contains cell bodies of rods and cones

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Inner segments and Outer segments

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contains photoreceptors

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Series of blood vessels that feed the deeper structures of the eye.
choroid plexus
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Retinal Layers
optic fiber layer-->ganglion cell layer-->inner plexiform layer-->inner nuclear layer-->outer plexiform layer-->outer nuclear layer-->inner segments and out segments-->pigment epithelium-->choroid
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Foveal pit
- marks the center of the fovea, in the center of the macula lutea - greatest concentration of photoreceptors, bipolar, to ganglion cells (1:1:1 relationship) - creates your greatest visual acuity - prone to degenerative diseases
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Right visual world
Left Temporal Retina | Right Nasal Retina
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Left visual world
Right Temporal Retina | Left Nasal Retina
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The greatest acuity is in which field?
macular field
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Nasal retinas
in each eye will cross midline at the decussation/optic chiasm to go back to the lateral geniculate body
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Two locations for optic nerve fibers to synapse.
superior colliculus (visual tracking), lateral geniculate body (most fibers synapse here)
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Two loops of optic radiations.
Baum’s Loop: medially located - fibers from superior retina carry information from the inferior part of the visual field Meyer’s Loop: laterally located- fibers from inferior retina carry information from the superior part of the visual field
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Lesion of the optic nerve.
Lose total vision in ipsilateral eye, both temporal and nasal retina (anopsia), more loss of vision in the peripheral field
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Lesion of the optic chiasm.
pituitary tumors are common, and can cause lesions in the optic chiasm; loss of nasal retina of both left and right side, resulting in tunnel vision; no peripheral vision (heteronymous hemianopsia)
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Lesion of the optic tract.
with a right lesion loss of temporal retinal on right side and nasal retina on left side, so you lose the entire left hemifield; Homonymous hemianopsia
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Lesion of optic radiations (Meyer’s and Baum’s loops)
loss of upper (Meyer) or lower (Baum) quadrant depending of what portion of the loop is involved; Quadrantanopia
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Lesion at striate cortex.
Loss of both upper and lower quadrant; Called macular sparing (loss of vision is not a complete hemifield, but a notched hemifield); Will have central vision
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Two types of cells of the lateral geniculate body.
Large Cells: Magnocellular | Smaller denser pact cells: Parvocellular
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Laminas in the LGB.
1, 4, 6 lamina get info from contralateral eye | 2, 3, 5 lamina get info from ipsilateral eye
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Geniculo-cortical inputs
- as info goes from LGB it goes within various parts of optic radiations, back to VI and segregated into ocular dominance columns - throughout VI we have columns of cells that layer: right eye, left eye, right eye, etc.
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17, 18, 19 brodmann's areas
17: V1 - takes up cuneus and lingual portions - macular region will be most posterior and the rest of the eye is represented more anterior in area 17 18 & 19: - wrap around to the lateral surface - visual Processing areas, where the what/whys/knowledge is added
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Area 17
V1 primary visual cortex
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Area 18
V2, V3, V3a
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Area 19
V4, V5 Association Cortex
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Line of Gennari
gives the striate cortex its name (only place to see the line)
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Visual processing - 3 types of cells
Each type of cell will respond best to a bar/point of light in a specific orientation; simple, complex, hypercomplex
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Retinal Physiology
1) Certain types of photoreceptor cells will respond to specific photons of light, starts a chain reaction that leads to an action potential 2) In some cases retinal ganglion cells will only respond to a bar of light 3) On-Centers and Off Surrounds Cells light will only be “turned-on” in the on-centers helps to see contrast 4) Off-centers and On Surround Cells, when light hits this cells you would see stimulus, stop, stimulus (creating contrast)
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Orientation columns and response to light.
Certain cells only respond to certain orientation, or bar of light, or bar of light moving in a particular fashion; all are composed in these orientation columns, alternating between information from the Left and Right Eye; Columns next to each other have interconnections for communication
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Within the visual cortex there is also some segregation of information depending on if the information is coming from?
rods or cones
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Rods info (Fast, black and white vision):
goes to retinal “Y” ganglion cells; those axons will go to magnocellular of LGB, those axons travel via optic radiations to Layer 4 of the visual cortex
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Cone info (Very accurate, color vision):
Retinal type “X” cells receive cone info, synapse in the parvocellular region of LGB and come in and synapse in cells in Layer 4 of visual cortex
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Visual streams hypothesis.
- separation of information of the inferior portions of the temporal lobe (ventral stream), putting what or meaning to the visual information - 2nd pathway (dorsal stream) into the parietal lobe that puts the where or how on the information we see
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Visual Agnosia
Lesions of the “what” (ventral stream) pathway will cause pt. not be able to recognize the object, but could describe it (doesn't know it’s a pencil, but knows it is long, yellow, etc)
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What happens when you shine a light into a pt.'s eye?
- some info comes into the pretectal area of midbrain, and synapses on edinger-westphal nucleus (both ipsilateral and contralateral) - causes the pupil to constrict, and also the contralateral pupil will constrict - If the contralateral pupil doesn’t constrict, the contralateral pathway from pretectal area to edinger-westphal has been broken

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