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Thanks to the work of NEI scientists and grantees, we’re constantly learning new information about the causes and treatment of vision disorders. Get the latest updates about their work — along with other news about NEI.

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Elderly brains learn, but maybe too much

A new study finds that in learning a visual task, older people exhibited a surprising degree of plasticity, but had trouble filtering out irrelevant information.
Grantee News

New Glaucoma Culprit Is Found

In a unique study of human ocular cells, a multi-institution research team finds that glaucoma appears to be a consequence of mechanical dysfunction of a thin layer of cells that is the final barrier to fluid entering Schlemm's canal.
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"Haven't I Seen This Before?" Researchers Show How Neurons Respond to Sequences of Familiar Objects

A new study reveals how neurons in the part of the brain responsible for recognizing objects respond to being shown a barrage of images.
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Proteins critical to wound healing identified

Research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis may have implications for treating diseases involving abnormal blood vessel growth, such as the impaired wound healing often seen in diabetes.
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Birthday Matters for Wiring-Up the Brain’s Vision Centers

New study suggests that neurons in the developing brains of mice are guided by a simple but elegant birth order rule that allows them to find and form their proper connections.
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New Compound Treats Both Blindness and Diabetes in Animal Studies

In a new study, a chemical compound designed to precisely target part of a crucial cellular quality-control network provided significant protection, in rats and mice, against degenerative forms of blindness and diabetes.
Chichilnisky and colleagues used an electrode array to record activity from retinal ganglion cells (yellow and blue) and feed it back to them, reproducing the cells' responses to visual stimulation. Credit: E.J. Chichilnisky, Stanford.

Making artificial vision look more natural

In laboratory tests, researchers have used electrical stimulation of retinal cells to produce the same patterns of activity that occur when the retina sees a moving object.
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Dodging dots helps explain brain circuitry

A neuroscience study provides new insight into the primal brain circuits involved in collision avoidance, and perhaps a more general model of how neurons can participate in networks to process information and act on it.
Individual cilia grow from the basal body of a cell with assistance from distal and subdistal appendages (Credit: Shobi Veleri, Ph.D., National Eye Institute)

NIH study reveals gene critical to the early development of cilia

Researchers at the National Eye Institute (NEI) have described the functions of a gene responsible for anchoring cilia — sensory hair-like extensions present on almost every cell of the body.
A healthy mouse retina (left) and distinctive folds in a mouse retina damaged by autoimmune uveitis (right). Credit: Wang et al. Nature Medicine, April 2014.

Soothing cells, peaceful protein could hold promise for treating autoimmune uveitis

Researchers at the National Eye Institute (NEI) have found a unique cell type that, in tests on mice, can protect against uveitis—a group of inflammatory diseases that affect the eye and can cause vision loss.

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