Sristi Raj Rai, Amity University Kolkata The whole science behind your vision lies in the screen behind your eyeballs. The screen on which the image is formed is called the retina without which the optic nerve cannot send signals to one’s brain. The retina is made up of 2 types of cells – ones responsible […]
Richismita Hazra, Amity University Kolkata Macular degeneration is an eye disease that causes loss in the centre of the field of vision and often leads to irreversible blindness. The disease is broad of two types: dry macular degeneration in which there is a deterioration of the centre of the retina and wet macular degeneration that […]
Sayak Biswas, Amity University, Kolkata Visual information is collected by the animals with the help of photoreceptors that are present in the retina. These visual signals are transferred to the brain through the retinal ganglion cells or the RCGs. In several binocular animals, the RCG axons are connected both to the ipsilateral and contralateral side […]
