Affiliation:
1. Baylor College of Medicine, USA
Abstract
Over the centuries, artists, poets, writers and scientists have all attempted to answer a key existential question: what makes us human? Neuroscience has provided us with one exciting possible answer: our brains. To decode the complexities of the brain, many large-scale efforts are aimed at unravelling the cellular, molecular and computational properties of this startlingly complex system. Yet, to date, many important insights towards these problems have come from a surprisingly humble part of the central nervous system – the retina. The retina resides outside the skull within the eye and is responsible for vision. It contains diverse neuron types that detect light and has proven to be a uniquely approachable system for discovering neurobiology principles owing to its inherent organization, wiring and experimental accessibility. In this article, we describe how the retina has been used to make key neuroscience discoveries, and in turn how these principles shed light on how the brain works.
Subject
General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
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