Neuroanatomical and neurophysiological consequences of strabismus: Changes in the structural and functional organization of the primary visual cortex in cats with alternating fixation and strabismic amblyopia

Strabismus

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 95-105

  Löwel, Siegrid ^a   Engelmann, Ralf ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alternating fixation; Cats; Horizontal connections; Intracortical connections; Ocular dominance; Orientation map; Strabismic amblyopia; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

AMBLYOPIA; BIOACCUMULATION; CAT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; EXPECTATION; EYE FIXATION; IMAGING; NERVE CELL; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REDUCTION; STRABISMUS; VISUAL CORTEX;

AMBLYOPIA; ANIMALS; CATS; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; DOMINANCE, OCULAR; FIXATION, OCULAR; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; STRABISMUS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0036406727     PISSN: 09273972     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1076/stra.10.2.95.8137     Document Type: Conference Paper

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