Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is one of the main causes of vision loss in the working age
population. It is characterized by a progressive deterioration of the retinal microvasculature …

Myopia most often develops during school age, with the highest incidence in countries with
intensive education systems. Interactions between genetic variants and educational …

Integrating the multifactorial processes co-occurring in both physiological and pathological
human conditions still remains one of the main challenges in translational investigation …

Myopia is the most common developmental disorder of juvenile eyes, and it has become an
increasing cause of severe visual impairment. The GJD2 locus has been consistently …

Alzheimer's disease primarily occurs as sporadic disease and is accompanied with vast
socio-economic problems. The mandatory basic research relies on robust and reliable …

Motion detection represents one of the critical tasks of the visual system and has motivated a
large body of research. However, it remains unclear precisely why the response of retinal …

The retina is sensitive to age-dependent degeneration. To find suitable animal models to
understand and map this process has particular importance. The degu (Octodon degus) is a …

Diabetic retinopathy, also defined as microvascular complication of diabetes mellitus, affects
the entire neurovascular unit with specific aberrations in every compartment …

Although the properties of the neurons of the visual system that process central and
peripheral regions of the visual field have been widely researched in the visual cortex and …

Maximum entropy models (MEM) have been widely used in the last 10 years to characterize
the statistics of networks of spiking neurons. A major drawback of this approach is that the …