The concept of an early postnatal critical period of development for the lateral geniculate nucleus was assessed by determining in adult cats whether previously established properties of geniculate neurons could be altered by varying the cats' visual experience. The analysis was limited to lamina A1 and the binocular segment of lamina A, and the properties studied were the percentage of physiol...

Transmission of auditory information from the medial geniculate body to the lateral nucleus of the amygdala is believed to be involved in the conditioning of fear responses to acoustic stimuli. This pathway exhibits LTP of electrically evoked field potentials after high frequency stimulation of the medial geniculate body. High frequency stimulation of the medial geniculate body also results in ...

Deciphering how the brain encodes the continuous flow of information contained in natural stimuli requires understanding the spontaneous activity of functional assemblies in multiple neuronal populations. A promising integrative approach that combines multisite recordings of local field potentials (LFP) with an independent component analysis (ICA) enables continuous readouts of population speci...

The Fos protein was immunocytochemically detected in the chick ventral lateral geniculate nucleus after novel stationary and optokinetic stimulation. Fos-positive nuclei were mainly detected in the internal part of the ventral geniculate when the animals were submitted to stationary visual stimulation. On the other hand, Fos-positive nuclei were mainly seen in the external part of the nucleus w...

Cortical blindness is defined as bilateral visual loss due to disruption of the pathways beyond lateral geniculate body. Visual disturbance a result cortical lesion can manifest in different ways. Anton's syndrome one manifestations blindness, which presents denial vision associated with confabulation setting obvious loss. This case illustrates challenges diagnosing emergency setting.

Quantitative perimetric studies in two patients with involvement of a lateral geniculate nucleus (caused by astrocytoma in one and a small arteriovenous malformation in the other) revealed strikingly incongruous defects in the contralateral homonymous fields of vision. The patterns of these hemianopias were analysed and correlated anatomically in terms of established patterns of retinal project...

Although the core functions and structure of the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) are well understood, this core is surrounded by questions about the integration of feedforward and feedback connections, interactions between different channels of information, and how activity dependent development restructures synaptic networks. Our understanding of the organization of the mouse LGN is particula...