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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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"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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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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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.
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JHU Biologists Identify New Neural Pathway in Eyes that Aids in Vision

A type of retina cell plays a more critical role in vision than previously known, a team led by Johns Hopkins University researchers has discovered.
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Motion-Sensing Cells in the Eye Let the Brain ‘Know’ About Directional Changes

Biologists at UC San Diego discovered that the ability of our brains to figure out and process directional movements is a result of the activation in the cortex of signals that originate from the direction-sensing cells in the retina.
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A short stay in darkness may heal hearing woes

New research shows that brains of adult mice can also be re-wired to compensate for a temporary vision loss by improving their hearing.
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In the brain, the number of neurons in a network may not matter

A new study indicates that it may be possible to accurately characterize complete neural networks by recording the activity of properly selected samples of 50 neurons or less - an alternative that is much easier to realize.
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Expanding our view of vision

Using a new approach, MIT researchers scanned individuals’ brains as they looked at different images and were able to pinpoint, to the millisecond, when the brain recognizes and categorizes an object, and where these processes occur.
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Parkinson's drugs could provide new avenue to treat diabetes-related vision problems

Dopamine-restoring drugs already used to treat Parkinson's disease may also be beneficial for the treatment of diabetic retinopathy, a leading cause of blindness in adults, Emory University researchers have discovered.
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NIH announces six funding opportunities for the BRAIN Initiative in fiscal year 2014

The National Institutes of Health is releasing funding opportunities to build a new arsenal of tools and technologies for unlocking the mysteries of the brain.

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