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00:00 it's not. So this is going be lectured 16 of neuroscience and you

00:08 watch lecture 15 Visual system, the if you haven't done so already the

00:16 age video point. And when you this uh lecture, I'm just gonna

00:29 you over some of the key I wanted to do it on the

00:34 but it's a little bit slow. starting the first component of the visual

00:41 is understanding the I. And understanding the anatomy. Yeah. Of the

00:50 and also the properties of the So the light has certain properties when

00:54 strikes the eyeball, there's certain anatomy the eyeball and there's certain of course

01:01 of the visual system. Why is called the visual system? Because it

01:05 multiple compartments circuits. If you made structures in the brain that processes visual

01:13 and the stream of the visual information from the eye into the thalamus of

01:18 funicular nucleus and to the primary visual and subsequently split into two streams.

01:24 I talked about that in the election dorsal parietal stream and ventral inferior temporal

01:29 . And you can see that the away it goes from the primary visual

01:33 area, if you want, the hierarchically advanced and complex the processing is

01:39 the more it gets co joined with sensory modalities such as hearing uh emotional

01:45 of what is going on and such sensory information as we discuss all of

01:50 sensory information goes through thalamus and the columnist. You have the nucleus.

01:55 nucleus nucleus had a quick discussion about olfactory system which actually does not have

02:02 important column as it goes bypasses thomas as I said it has an input

02:07 thomas to join it with other information . So it does have if not

02:14 direct processing of smell for for the input in processing that smell. So

02:20 just reminded me that this is sort a little bit of an exception in

02:24 sensory world when you ask that question in general this is the information from

02:31 will go into thalamus and we'll go the primary auditory cortex And so we

02:37 all of these different components of the that I walked you through and you

02:41 know them very well. And then talked about the circuit in director we

02:46 about the photoreceptors, bipolar cells of ganglion cells. We talked about the

02:54 here and the two types of photoreceptors cones and rods that are connected to

02:58 south and connected to retinal ganglion cells form the fiber bundle up the optic

03:04 which is your cranial nerve to that out and this is actually the bundle

03:09 that cranial nerve to it then goes the chasm and part of this bundle

03:15 over So there is this light processing to strike the very back of the

03:20 moment to excite. Excite the photo with a photo transaction takes place today

03:26 understand what the photo transaction is and the circuit actually works when the light

03:32 going to be able to make some these retinal ganglion cells fire action potentials

03:38 artists will hyper polarize those. So general the only output of the retina

03:45 you know is from the retinal ganglion . We talked about the farsightedness and

03:51 in that lecture we talked about also layer of circuit control by horizontal and

04:00 immigrant cells and we'll look into a bit more detail today. Again,

04:04 recall that you have two different types the cone and rod photoreceptors and the

04:10 between them, anatomical differences as well the functional differences where the rods are

04:15 the night vision and slowly adapting comes for the high acuity vision and require

04:20 lot of life. And the arrangement the receptors is such that the

04:27 actors are expressed at high densities in area that is very central, right

04:32 the pupil in the back of the called a phobia which essentially focuses all

04:37 the direct actual rays of light to onto the conflict of receptors. And

04:40 robert receptors are responsible for the dark . I located more on the periphery

04:46 the retina. And so and phobia have a specialized kind of a cone

04:49 structure that uh points all the light to the counts and three types of

04:56 depending on the stimulus, the light coming in. This electromagnetic source light

05:02 in photons of lives that are coming depending on which wavelength they are.

05:08 gonna anxiety the blue green or red and they can excite them in different

05:13 . And this is where you get color mixing. And this is where

05:15 get the creation of multiple hues. don't see the world in the

05:20 red, green, blue colors, printers RgB. We'll see these guys

05:26 G B C M Y K. K C M Y K. Seven

05:29 . Yes, I am magenta Ok, you got me. So

05:38 , but this is how you get uses. So we see quite a

05:41 colors by having the ability to excite uh photo receptors at different wavelengths to

05:48 degrees. And I always say that are animals that are a lot more

05:52 in this world. You can see lot more colors. I'm not saying

05:54 they have better vision but they'll see lot more colors. So you can

05:58 scattered rays of light and things like . It's really cool. So now

06:04 have the anatomy of the eye and next section and is to understand what

06:11 going to be doing today is we're to understand the system from several

06:15 First of all there is a structure structure of the cells in the

06:20 Then each one of these cells have certain function. The photo receptors.

06:25 transformed that photo of life into an reaction. A graded synaptic potential graded

06:32 potential that gets communicated to bipolar And then retinal ganglion cells are the

06:38 ones to produce this all our non which is different from the grated perceptive

06:44 response which is an action potential and that information to lateral funicular nucleus.

06:50 there's a structure there is a there's functionality in that circuit. And

06:56 the time we're done on thursday you'll how all of this creates a primitive

07:00 primal image of the outside world at level of the primary visual cortex.

07:06 we've learned in the past with medical signaling is that you have to have

07:09 neurotransmitter in order to activate the And that receptor is linked to G

07:15 and a couple of cascade secondary And you can increase the production of

07:21 messenger. We also saw opposing actions metabolic tropic chemical signaling. Some increased

07:28 messengers of this decrease. We looked the tropic and memorable tropic having opposing

07:36 . This is a system and the and the photo receptors where the

07:40 Now there's a stimulus, it's not camera and life is linked to the

07:47 . Protein. The receptor that contains light sensitive molecule, it's linked to

07:53 protein coupled receptor and it causes a in the secondary messenger and actually regulates

08:00 flow of sodium. So how does work? Let's first understand what is

08:06 and why the system is a little from the other systems. You have

08:11 learning so far when we were studying resting membrane potential, we said the

08:15 membrane potential in the south, it's -65, 70 million volts.

08:22 if you look at the photo receptors the dark, what you call a

08:27 potential, maybe the south to actually polarized and their potential is minor study

08:35 but the cells don't produce action for . So they're just they're different from

08:39 that we were talking about earlier. they're deep polarized because there's a lot

08:44 cyclic GMP and the cyclic GMP keeps sodium channel over and the sodium channels

08:51 and then -30 middle of balls here the dark the light turns on,

08:56 stimulus of light is yellow and the membrane of the photo receptor hyper

09:04 So you would say whoa ! The actually had to polarize the cell.

09:08 how does that work? And it's about what is downstream in the circuit

09:13 . But you will say, well cells in the darker, constantly active

09:16 . How come I'm not seeing things I close my eyes. It was

09:20 to the circuit, there's a level control and there is inhibition in the

09:24 . So this retinal circuit is not all excited for it as a significant

09:29 component. So you turn the light and this member and potential goes back

09:33 the polarized state in the dark. minus started millones when it is d

09:40 and in the presence of sodium it's a lot of glutamate excitatory. When

09:46 is not an upper sodium, the GMP gets converted into GMP. There's

09:53 particular release, there's no glutamate Uh huh. The light sensitive molecule

10:00 now Inside the option this is a configuration. When it hits. Uh

10:08 now photo out of life changes into configuration and this confirmation will change activates

10:17 G. Protein and G. Pro again in the dark. Its sodium

10:25 coming in in the presence of psychology . In the presence of life is

10:29 . Protein activation causes the conversion of GMP into GMP by fast for Dia

10:36 here and in the absence of cyclic . When there is no cyclic

10:43 the sodium channel is closed and the of potential is a hyper power.

10:54 , cones require more energy to get more light. Right? The direct

11:00 surveys of light rods gets saturated by light and they operate better. They're

11:06 sensitive. So a lot of it down to Rod's having those free floating

11:13 that actually increase the surface area and them more sensitive to the photons of

11:19 . Okay, so we understand that is a circuit here and we are

11:25 going to start developing our understanding of is a receptive field. If you

11:33 of the uh as a matter of system for example, Which is your

11:38 in your body? Where is your field for your right shoulder? In

11:44 skin? It's on your right Whereas you receptive field for your left

11:50 and your skin of somebody taps is your left shoulder. In other

11:52 if somebody taps you on the road , you don't feel it's your left

11:56 being tapped. So there's receptive Some of them are large year and

12:02 torso on the hand, some of are very small for a time

12:08 fine manipulation, fine dextrous movement. but the receptive fields individual system as

12:17 . Did you have a question? you like? They are obviously I

12:28 checked actually before the before the lecture showing that it's that it's open and

12:33 . But but I'll. Okay, how is this organized? And the

12:51 ? And what are the receptive fields the retina just talked about the

12:55 What are the receptive fields in the ? What is retina seeing? So

13:00 turns out that there is collections of receptor cells. Okay, in the

13:08 , this photo receptor cells you can here they have zone in the surrounds

13:19 . So the center zone can be and the surround can be off or

13:28 surround can be armed and the center be off. I hope you're drawing

13:45 me. Yeah, I'm joking. Okay. So low system resources,

14:09 . Maybe what's going on. So why why is it why is

14:15 that you have the receptive fields? other words, do you remember a

14:18 ago and said? What happens if have a cooperating into the computer?

14:21 does retina see? What does retina with a stalinist process? Well does

14:27 process? Where does the picture form the outside world with his emotion,

14:32 , everything being joined together? Where this happening? And how is this

14:37 ? So what his retina see? if you were to hook up to

14:40 computer and this is your retina Retina has collections of photo receptors and

14:47 photo receptors react to beams of life are either center beam of life on

14:54 surround be mobilized that's on or And this is what retina perceives retina

15:03 luminescence difference and that luminescence difference in retinal circuit across retinal circuit is organized

15:11 these on off center surround bipolar and ganglion cell receptive field properties. So

15:22 way of envisioning is you can isolate retina from a turtle from an animal

15:28 can instead of Pokemon electrode in the , whole cell or two you can

15:34 it on my electrode array. So can record from 1000 spots in that

15:41 . So you can shine the light you can shine the light just like

15:45 know you have a flashlight, you adjust the beam, the beam is

15:49 broad or the beam is really The beam is really narrow. There's

15:53 lot more contrast in one spot, beam is really broad, there is

15:58 contrast. So really narrow beams would on photo receptor in the center of

16:07 in the surround. And these Micro recordings are really great because then you

16:13 actually identify these groups of 30 receptors are responsible to reacting to a small

16:19 of light into a larger beam of . And what is the response from

16:24 retinal ganglion cells. So as you see these photo receptors, these clumps

16:28 the photo receptors or center surround and can measure the receptor field properties by

16:37 action potentials of the retinal gang So retinal ganglion cells are the only

16:43 that produce the action for controls. this is this timeline here on the

16:48 axis is time and each one of black sticks is an action potential.

16:56 if you take a light and on center ganglion cells and you'll see what

17:02 that? Where's ganglion cells there? not. The ganglion cells are sitting

17:07 photo receptors but it's clumps of these receptors. I'm sorry guys, this

17:11 the way the retina is built. just the way it is. People

17:16 . Why is the center surround. is this? Because that's what it

17:19 . This is the structure the function on top of that, the circuit

17:24 the chemistry all of it working So the structure is that if you

17:30 a beam of light, this focus beam of light on a on photo

17:37 that are connected to the on retinal cell, you will get the most

17:42 potentials. So if you're shining this of light and yellow here in the

17:47 you get the most action potentials. is the beam of light, the

17:51 is right here. If you shine beam of light on the surround but

17:57 leave the center dark. So you you have a very sophisticated flashlight,

18:01 can have only women a justice around not the center. What happens the

18:07 from that retinal ganglion cell is So that retinal ganglion cell is an

18:14 center ganglion cell, meaning that that cell will be activated. D

18:19 producing the most action potentials when the of light is hitting the center.

18:25 . The least will be one that of light is hitting this around.

18:30 guess what happens if you have even across. There is no change in

18:36 frequency of action potential firing because you are not. It's even illumination.

18:43 there is no boundaries and there's no in luminescence. All center ganglion cells

18:50 just the opposite of center ganglion cells produce the most action potentials when the

18:56 regions of the photo receptors are Yeah and it will produce the least

19:03 potentials when the center region is activated light. And again it will show

19:10 change in the frequency of action potential the illumination is even across the whole

19:16 field or even across large patches of regular. Well the whole right you're

19:25 white space. There's not much there's not much elimination, there's not

19:30 difference. Okay so set the field the receptor area in this case it's

19:38 wonder. Sector in this case is that their sector sitting in the retina

19:44 one stimulated results in a response of particular sensory neuron. Uh huh.

19:54 retinal ganglion cells are going to be that information and through the circuit.

20:02 by now you should be thinking, wait a second. There are these

20:05 of photoreceptors they get activated by light photo receptors released. Glutamate bipolar cells

20:18 is good at it. So how light? There's a circuit, how

20:25 light can either inhibit gangly himself excited now. So that's what I just

20:31 you before. You have certain on cells, they're excited, more action

20:37 or santa, marta or just the . Now it comes down to the

20:45 . The circuit is a following. remember there's two most important things to

20:50 about this circuit and it's explained in couple of slides. First of all

20:56 neuron photo receptor, what the receptors what the photo receptor is doing in

21:01 light versus in the dark with respect member and potential and the dark is

21:06 polarized in the light is hyper All right, the splitter receptor releases

21:13 to me. The other most important to remember is that there is the

21:22 from bipolar so that it depends on type of the glutamate receptor. Ethics

21:29 that expresses and takin it receptor. plus stands here for signed conserving

21:39 son conserving means that if in the this neuron is deep polarized, the

21:45 is concerned across the synapse bipolar cell deep polarized is releasing glutamate this off

21:52 ganglion cells D polarized. So now look at the situation where you have

22:00 . What happens in the presence of in the presence of light. Norah

22:06 hyper polarized. That means there is glutamate release. If there's no glutamate

22:14 ample kitchenaid and this is hyper This is signed conserving synapse bipolar,

22:19 is hyper polarized. That retinal ganglion between bipolar to retinal ganglion cells are

22:29 am bikini are signed. Conserving so the light this is hyper polarized this

22:36 hyper polarized. And what is this doing is hyper polarized. So is

22:42 cell on in the light or it's ? It's off center ganglion cells meaning

22:50 in the presence of life this cell actually hyper polarized. Okay, well

22:56 interesting. So how do you get sell to dip polarize now and you

23:01 over to this side of the second to the left and you look at

23:06 negative sign. This negative sign means sign inverting synapse And the sign inverting

23:13 instead of containing ample Kinney. For they contain metadata, tropic blue

23:18 Chapter six. Remember how we talked how I wanna tropic could de polarize

23:25 south like in nicotine, a casino and most karina castillo Colin will have

23:29 polarize the south So they're opposing actions that posson optically they mean a different

23:36 to the stuff and puttin it would've binds Pazin optically means deep polarization.

23:43 glutamate binds metal. A drop in receptors. It's the opposite is hyper

23:50 . So that's why it's signed. synapse meaning that when this photo receptors

23:55 polarized the metabolic tropic bipolar saul is to be hyper polarized downstream the synapses

24:06 conserving. So hyper polarized means it's to be hyper Poland in the light

24:14 shut down due them and release. glutamate release on the amp kinase side

24:21 hyper polarization. I mean no glutamate hyper polarization here on the opposite

24:28 Metal tropic no glutamate means deep polarization through g protein coupled cascade the metal

24:37 tropic glutamate is inhibitory. So this is hyper polarized but the sign inverting

24:44 cell is deep polarized and now this himself is also de polarized and that's

24:55 this is an on center game So the lightest hyper polarization. And

25:02 this circuit in fact that it causes polarization of ganglion cells and through metal

25:09 tropic pathway the light which is a polarization of photo receptors actually causes deep

25:16 . Yeah so now you see how basically the same stimulus. It's the

25:21 stimulus but it's just the circuit that that information. And then organization of

25:28 receptor salis is like a camera. you organize your little camera compartments.

25:35 cellphone someday we'll have like 200 little cameras on them, all of

25:40 . So this is how each one them is like a tiny little camera

25:43 at a tiny little spot in the . You know so you have photoreceptors

25:51 . So circuit signed conserving is plus deep polarization means the polarization sign.

26:00 means deep polarization equals hyper polarization, in the cone equals hyper polarization.

26:07 then you can answer these questions so can play around. But the two

26:11 important things to remember is what does due to further receptor. And if

26:17 study receptors communicating to the arena tropic . So on medical tropic bipolar.

26:23 if you know these two things you'll able to answer all of the questions

26:27 it's on off the polarizer hyper polarized not necessarily like straightforward and simple but

26:34 it's not overly complicated. The circuit you'll say like it's all excited to

26:40 so far blue team mates. So receptors bipolar cells would remain federal gang

26:47 . Inhibition comes from these horizontally controlling horizontal circuit control through horizontal and american

26:56 . And this is an example of cell. The horizontal cell when the

27:02 photo receptor is activated in the light signed. Conserving meaning that in the

27:11 this cone is hyper polarized and this solace hyper polarized. Oh this horizontal

27:21 feeds back, it has a negative projection onto the cone photoreceptors cells.

27:30 meaning and it's also signed inverting. when this horizontal cell is D polarized

27:36 going to release Gaba the sign inverting actually going to hyper polarized to

27:44 So then you say ah that's interesting you told us in the dark the

27:49 are deep polarized and dark when the are d polarized. You have this

27:54 cool level of regulation by inhibit 30 feedback de polarize is a little too

28:01 . There's a little bit more inhibition and there's a little bit more inhibition

28:06 the polarization of the cone photoreceptors. there's local level control of these receptive

28:14 and member and potentials and you have tight control by inhibition. You have

28:22 anatomy of horizontal self inputs responsible for antagonism. Okay so these boundaries between

28:32 center and surround and the boundaries between receptors. Fields of these cells are

28:39 large part defined by inhibition and inhibitory . You know we think about the

28:46 as being sculpting sculpting to find edges that flashlight beam and without inhibition the

28:54 beam is more kind of like elusive spread out around. Uh huh.

29:00 that's one way you can think about . The other thing is important actually

29:05 the circuit is that or sandals south gaba. Uh And horizontal cells also

29:18 gap junctions. So what do you about gap junctions? We actually remember

29:23 a bit about gap junctions there. junctions. And that means that a

29:28 of light that deep polarizes locally and polarizes horizontal south locally will be spread

29:36 the circa very quickly then synchronized very through the gap junctions. So this

29:43 what the retina is seeing. Okay is the gap junctions are gonna control

29:49 not only the sculpting properties but also spread of life and the dilution.

29:55 you may have a really strong beam light is also in a way protective

30:00 in this negative feedback loop. And in the structure of the circuit for

30:04 the controlling the tightness of that beam how it should become more spread out

30:10 potentially prevent the burnout. But the receptor cells in case there's strong beams

30:16 light that are concentrated. Okay. the last section after the photo

30:28 Now you understand the structure and a , you understand structure of the

30:35 You understand the circuit in the You understand that there is certain neuro

30:43 of that circuit and connectivity. A neurochemistry release of neurotransmitters and neuro pharmacology

30:50 the tropic Russia's meddling tropic, there's transaction and the receptive field properties and

30:57 information. There's some of the same for you to review. That information

31:03 not all that is happening at the of the retina. So the receptive

31:08 that are coming from these on and receptive fields from retinal ganglion cells.

31:13 coming from the photo receptors clumps of photo receptors through the circuit that's where

31:18 on or off. But retinal ganglion themselves are different. This P and

31:25 M ganglion cells P stands for They're small cells with small projection trees

31:32 have small receptive fields with slower conductance they're less sensitive to low contrast and

31:39 cells which are large. They're faster large dendritic tree and there are more

31:47 to low contrast. That makes Smaller cells smaller than Reddick projections.

31:53 will acquire information from less of these receptors. To some of these fields

32:01 going to be smaller in size and will be larger as science.

32:10 Depending on where the light is being , these fields are actually overlapping with

32:15 other to so what is not in . Type. Non in P.

32:21 are the south that don't qualify an korean functionally to be either the power

32:27 the magno cells. Now when we into the central processing will be able

32:37 understand that we perceive these patterns, we perceive these basic patterns and that

32:44 is a really strong patterning and anatomical patterning as you see along this system

32:53 . I will talk about the ocular columns and the plasticity in a few

32:59 , but before I leave you I want to tell you you had

33:02 few distractions. So I'll go over five more minutes. We're going to

33:07 looking at where these projections go from retina and 80 to 90 projections from

33:12 retina go into the lateral nucleus of , 10% going through the satirical Oculus

33:20 the text. Um remember texting and momentum and you remember text um contains

33:26 structure called corporate quadra gemini. two Ecology, Provisional Information to Empirical Equality

33:34 Auditor Information. So that's where that travels. And the superior calculus is

33:40 for faster Katic eye movements. We have a smooth pursuit. And every

33:45 you follow somebody moving across across the field or soccer field, you're constantly

33:51 these jumps and refocusing on that even if you're moving your head,

33:56 that person is going to be shifting and out of distance, making your

34:01 and the lens uh basically adjusted to that person and focus the caddy key

34:08 . Always say one of the best is in cats, you have a

34:12 at home, they'll be sitting and be doing these like thinking thinking,

34:16 like bounce, bounce movements, there's , car movements and very well developed

34:21 in in in cats 1 to 3% retinal projections and stuff that come out

34:26 here in the optic nerve here go the super charismatic nuclear super charismatic nucleus

34:32 your master body. Clock is responsible circadian rhythms controlling your diurnal or day

34:38 night rhythm. So it receives a input of life. It's not processing

34:43 information but obviously some of the brain component like psychotic eye movement. Important

34:52 evolutionarily for survival, keeping things in , moving. Ocular motor nerve,

34:58 the eyeball. It's there the system there this is what we're seeing here

35:02 pretty colors and things like that and and interpretation. That's all. Neocortex

35:07 from higher centers. Super charismatic nucleus that light input. It doesn't process

35:12 light input. It just it just super cosmetic nucleus date tonight, twilight's

35:21 , lighter that's all it needs to and then it regulates the transcription factors

35:27 regulates our rhythms so that you wake in the morning and go to sleep

35:31 night. The nerve that comes out the eye is the optic nerve to

35:36 you have the optic eye ASM so and nasal portion after retina will cross

35:42 through the optic eye as subsequently you have optic tract on both sides.

35:47 will contain inputs or outputs from the parts of the boat less than the

35:54 eye And it is chi asthma Sitting here next to the stock of the

36:01 gland. We mentioned the twitter guan HP. A access to remember hypothalamic

36:10 adrenal axis. So it's involved in regulation and cortisol regulation. And we'll

36:18 into examples when if you have engorged gland or damage or uh growth around

36:27 gland, you will also start pinching damaging off the cars, causing certain

36:34 of visual laws in general. The of view is divided into the left

36:40 right hemisphere. The nasal fibers that closed here to the nose are the

36:46 that cross over through the chaos and temporal fibers that are close to the

36:51 . The retinal fibers are almost divided half will stay up so laterally on

36:55 same side. This region here in middle, depicted right here. If

37:01 fix it straight ahead is bipolar That means that both eyes are seeing

37:07 area right here. The last i seeing the left periphery because right in

37:15 shape like a cop like this. it's sitting like this. And so

37:21 bent a little bit. And so receptors here, they will be looking

37:26 there. Okay. And so only eye, the left eye and the

37:32 in the left eye is going to able to see the periphery on the

37:36 because the right I will not be to do it because of the

37:41 The nose gets in the way and off the vision actually. So the

37:48 periphery is again pursued by the nasal and that nasal component here you can

37:55 the dots actually crosses over. The to refer is perceived by the right

38:01 component that work This one. And it is also again the part

38:08 crosses over. So I will end but when we come back we're going

38:15 review how damage to the nerve, optic track and the chasm causes loss

38:22 visual field. We will talk about in the thalamus and the six layers

38:27 the thalamus. And then we'll finally about and remind ourselves about the anatomy

38:34 the cortex and the cortical and laminar in the cortex. So we have

38:40 half an hour of material to cover thursday and then I'll be happy to

38:46 any questions or walk you through some or show you on all the video

38:51 exam. Review if I find a good patch that explains something really

38:55 So come prepared back on thursday I'll you here or I'll see you on

39:01 and please register for your exam. have a good afternoon

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