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Duwell EJ, Woertz EN, Mathis J, Carroll J, DeYoe EA. BOLD Contrast Response Characteristics of Aberrant Voxels with Bilateral Visual Population Receptive Fields in Human Albinism. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2024:2024.05.26.595603. [PMID: 38853944 PMCID: PMC11160651 DOI: 10.1101/2024.05.26.595603] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2024]
Abstract
Albinism is an inherited disorder characterized by disrupted melanin production in the eye, and often in the skin and hair. This retinal hypopigmentation is accompanied by pathological decussation of many temporal retinal afferents at the optic chiasm during development, ultimately resulting in partially superimposed representations of opposite visual hemifields in each cortical hemisphere. Within these aberrant regions of hemifield overlap, individual voxels have been shown to have bilateral, dual population receptive fields (pRFs) responding to roughly mirror-image locations across the vertical meridian. Nonetheless, how these two conflicting inputs combine to determine a voxel's response to image contrast is still unknown. To address this, we stimulated the right and left hemifields with separately controlled sinusoidal gratings, each having a variety of contrasts (0, 8, 20, 45, 100%), and extracted voxel-wise BOLD response amplitudes to each contrast combination in visual areas V1-V3. We then compared voxels' responses to each hemifield stimulated individually with conditions when both hemifields were stimulated simultaneously. We hypothesized that simultaneous stimulation of the two pRF components will result in either a suppressive or facilitative interaction. However, we found that BOLD responses to simultaneous stimulation appeared to reflect simple summation of the neural activity from the individual hemifield conditions. This suggests that the superimposed opposite hemifield representations do not interact. Thus, dual pRFs in albinism likely reflect two co-localized, but functionally independent populations of neurons each of which respond to a single hemifield. This finding is commensurate with psychophysical studies which have shown no clear perceptual interaction between opposite visual hemifields in human albinism.
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- Ethan J. Duwell
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Road, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA
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- John A. Moran Eye Center, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
- Department of Cell Biology, Neurobiology & Anatomy, Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Road, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Road, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA
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- Department of Cell Biology, Neurobiology & Anatomy, Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Road, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA
- Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, Medical College of Wisconsin, 925 N. 87th Street, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Road, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA
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Tsytsarev V, Plachez C, Zhao S, O'Connor DH, Erzurumlu RS. Bilateral Whisker Representations in the Primary Somatosensory Cortex in Robo3cKO Mice Are Reflected in the Primary Motor Cortex. Neuroscience 2024; 544:128-137. [PMID: 38447690 PMCID: PMC11146016 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2024.02.031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2023] [Revised: 02/09/2024] [Accepted: 02/28/2024] [Indexed: 03/08/2024]
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In Robo3cKO mice, midline crossing defects of the trigeminothalamic projections from the trigeminal principal sensory nucleus result in bilateral whisker maps in the somatosensory thalamus and consequently in the face representation area of the primary somatosensory (S1) cortex (Renier et al., 2017; Tsytsarev et al., 2017). We investigated whether this bilateral sensory representation in the whisker-barrel cortex is also reflected in the downstream projections from the S1 to the primary motor (M1) cortex. To label these projections, we injected anterograde viral axonal tracer in S1 cortex. Corticocortical projections from the S1 distribute to similar areas across the ipsilateral hemisphere in control and Robo3cKO mice. Namely, in both genotypes they extend to the M1, premotor/prefrontal cortex (PMPF), secondary somatosensory (S2) cortex. Next, we performed voltage-sensitive dye imaging (VSDi) in the left hemisphere following ipsilateral and contralateral single whisker stimulation. While controls showed only activation in the contralateral whisker barrel cortex and M1 cortex, the Robo3cKO mouse left hemisphere was activated bilaterally in both the barrel cortex and the M1 cortex. We conclude that the midline crossing defect of the trigeminothalamic projections leads to bilateral whisker representations not only in the thalamus and the S1 cortex but also downstream from the S1, in the M1 cortex.
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- Vassiliy Tsytsarev
- Department of Neurobiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 20 Penn St, HSF-2, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA.
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- Department of Neurobiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 20 Penn St, HSF-2, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA.
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- Department of Neurobiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 20 Penn St, HSF-2, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA.
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- The Zanvyl Krieger Mind/Brain Institute, The Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N. Charles Street, 338 Krieger Hall, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA.
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- Department of Neurobiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 20 Penn St, HSF-2, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA.
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Pilat A, McLean RJ, Vanina A, Dineen RA, Gottlob I. Clinical features and imaging characteristics in achiasmia. Brain Commun 2023; 5:fcad219. [PMID: 37680693 PMCID: PMC10481774 DOI: 10.1093/braincomms/fcad219] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2022] [Revised: 05/24/2023] [Accepted: 08/21/2023] [Indexed: 09/09/2023] Open
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Achiasmia is a rare visual pathway maldevelopment with reduced decussation of the axons in the optic chiasm. Our aim was to investigate clinical characteristics, macular, optic nerve and brain morphology in achiasmia. A prospective, cross-sectional, observational study of 12 participants with achiasmia [8 males and 4 females; 29.6 ± 18.4 years (mean ± standard deviation)] and 24 gender-, age-, ethnicity- and refraction-matched healthy controls was done. Full ophthalmology assessment, eye movement recording, a high-resolution spectral-domain optical coherence tomography of the macular and optic disc, five-channel visual-evoked responses, eye movement recordings and MRI scans of the brain and orbits were acquired. Achiasmia was confirmed in all 12 clinical participants by visual-evoked responses. Visual acuity in this group was 0.63 ± 0.19 and 0.53 ± 0.19 for the right and left eyes, respectively; most participants had mild refractive errors. All participants with achiasmia had see-saw nystagmus and no measurable stereo vision. Strabismus and abnormal head position were noted in 58% of participants. Optical coherence tomography showed optic nerve hypoplasia with associated foveal hypoplasia in four participants. In the remaining achiasmia participants, macular changes with significantly thinner paracentral inner segment (P = 0.002), wider pit (P = 0.04) and visual flattening of the ellipsoid line were found. MRI demonstrated chiasmatic aplasia in 3/12 (25%), chiasmatic hypoplasia in 7/12 (58%) and a subjectively normal chiasm in 2/12 (17%). Septo-optic dysplasia and severe bilateral optic nerve hypoplasia were found in three patients with chiasmic aplasia/hypoplasia on MRI. In this largest series of achiasmia patients to date, we found for the first time that neuronal abnormalities occur already at the retinal level. Foveal changes, optic nerve hypoplasia and the midline brain anomaly suggest that these abnormalities could be part of the same spectrum, with different manifestations of events during foetal development occurring with varying severity.
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- Anastasia Pilat
- Department of Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
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- Department of Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
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- Division of Clinical Neuroscience, Queen’s Medical Centre, Radiological Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
- NIHR Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre, Queen’s Medical Centre, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
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- Department of Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
- Department of Neurology, Cooper University Hospital, Cooper Neurological Institute, Camden, USA
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Duwell EJ, Woertz EN, Mathis J, Carroll J, DeYoe EA. Aberrant visual population receptive fields in human albinism. J Vis 2021; 21:19. [PMID: 34007988 PMCID: PMC8142699 DOI: 10.1167/jov.21.5.19] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
Abstract
Retinotopic organization is a fundamental feature of visual cortex thought to play a vital role in encoding spatial information. One important aspect of normal retinotopy is the representation of the right and left hemifields in contralateral visual cortex. However, in human albinism, many temporal retinal afferents decussate aberrantly at the optic chiasm resulting in partially superimposed representations of opposite hemifields in each hemisphere of visual cortex. Previous functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies in human albinism suggest that the right and left hemifield representations are superimposed in a mirror-symmetric manner. This should produce imaging voxels which respond to two separate locations mirrored across the vertical meridian. However, it is not yet clear how retino-cortical miswiring in albinism manifests at the level of single voxel population receptive fields (pRFs). Here, we used pRF modeling to fit both single and dual pRF models to the visual responses of voxels in visual areas V1 to V3 of five subjects with albinism. We found that subjects with albinism (but not controls) have sizable clusters of voxels with unequivocal dual pRFs consistently corresponding to, but not fully coextensive with, regions of hemifield overlap. These dual pRFs were typically positioned at locations roughly mirrored across the vertical meridian and were uniquely clustered within a portion of the visual field for each subject.
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- Ethan J Duwell
- Department of Biophysics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA.,
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- Department of Cell Biology, Neurobiology, and Anatomy, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA.,
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- Department of Neurology, Medical College of Wisconsin, USA.,
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- Department of Biophysics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA.,Department of Cell Biology, Neurobiology, and Anatomy, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA.,Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA.,
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- Department of Radiology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA.,
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Ahmadi K, Fracasso A, Puzniak RJ, Gouws AD, Yakupov R, Speck O, Kaufmann J, Pestilli F, Dumoulin SO, Morland AB, Hoffmann MB. Triple visual hemifield maps in a case of optic chiasm hypoplasia. Neuroimage 2020; 215:116822. [PMID: 32276070 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.116822] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2019] [Revised: 02/27/2020] [Accepted: 04/02/2020] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
Abstract
In humans, each hemisphere comprises an overlay of two visuotopic maps of the contralateral visual field, one from each eye. Is the capacity of the visual cortex limited to these two maps or are plastic mechanisms available to host more maps? We determined the cortical organization of the visual field maps in a rare individual with chiasma hypoplasia, where visual cortex plasticity is challenged to accommodate three hemifield maps. Using high-resolution fMRI at 7T and diffusion-weighted MRI at 3T, we found three hemiretinal inputs, instead of the normal two, to converge onto the left hemisphere. fMRI-based population receptive field mapping of the left V1-V3 at 3T revealed three superimposed hemifield representations in the left visual cortex, i.e. two representations of opposing visual hemifields from the left eye and one right hemifield representation from the right eye. We conclude that developmental plasticity including the re-wiring of local intra- and cortico-cortical connections is pivotal to support the coexistence and functioning of three hemifield maps within one hemisphere.
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- Khazar Ahmadi
- Department of Ophthalmology, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, 39120, Germany; Clinical Memory Research Unit, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Lund, 22362, Sweden
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- Department of Experimental Psychology, Helmholtz Institute, Utrecht University, Utrecht, 3584 CS, the Netherlands; Department of Radiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, 3584 CX, the Netherlands; Spinoza Centre for Neuroimaging, Amsterdam, 1105 BK, the Netherlands; Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QB, UK
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, 39120, Germany
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- Department of Psychology, York Neuroimaging Centre, University of York, York, YO10 5NY, UK
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- Department of Biomedical Magnetic Resonance, Institute for Physics, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, 39120, Germany; German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Magdeburg, 39120, Germany
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- Department of Biomedical Magnetic Resonance, Institute for Physics, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, 39120, Germany; German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Magdeburg, 39120, Germany; Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, 39118, Germany; Center for Behavioral Brain Sciences, Magdeburg, 39106, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Otto-von-Guericke-University, Magdeburg, 39120, Germany
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 1101 E, USA
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- Department of Experimental Psychology, Helmholtz Institute, Utrecht University, Utrecht, 3584 CS, the Netherlands; Spinoza Centre for Neuroimaging, Amsterdam, 1105 BK, the Netherlands; Department of Experimental and Applied Psychology, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 1081 BT, the Netherlands
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- Department of Psychology, York Neuroimaging Centre, University of York, York, YO10 5NY, UK; Centre for Neuroscience, Hull-York Medical School, University of York, York, YO10 5DD, UK
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, 39120, Germany; Center for Behavioral Brain Sciences, Magdeburg, 39106, Germany.
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Altered visual population receptive fields in human albinism. Cortex 2020; 128:107-123. [PMID: 32334151 DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2020.03.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2019] [Revised: 01/10/2020] [Accepted: 03/07/2020] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
Abstract
Albinism is a congenital disorder where misrouting of the optic nerves at the chiasm gives rise to abnormal visual field representations in occipital cortex. In typical human development, the left occipital cortex receives retinal input predominantly from the right visual field, and vice-versa. In albinism, there is a more complete decussation of optic nerve fibers at the chiasm, resulting in partial representation of the temporal hemiretina (ipsilateral visual field) in the contralateral hemisphere. In this study, we characterize the receptive field properties for these abnormal representations by conducting detailed fMRI population receptive field mapping in a rare subset of participants with albinism and no ocular nystagmus. We find a nasal bias for receptive field positions in the abnormal temporal hemiretina representation. In addition, by modelling responses to bilateral visual field stimulation in the overlap zone, we found evidence in favor of discrete unilateral receptive fields, suggesting a conservative pattern of spatial selectivity in the presence of abnormal retinal input.
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Carvalho J, Invernizzi A, Ahmadi K, Hoffmann MB, Renken RJ, Cornelissen FW. Micro-probing enables fine-grained mapping of neuronal populations using fMRI. Neuroimage 2019; 209:116423. [PMID: 31811903 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.116423] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2019] [Revised: 11/22/2019] [Accepted: 11/29/2019] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
Abstract
The characterization of receptive field (RF) properties is fundamental to understanding the neural basis of sensory and cognitive behaviour. The combination of non-invasive imaging, such as fMRI, with biologically inspired neural modelling has enabled the estimation of population RFs directly in humans. However, current approaches require making numerous a priori assumptions, so these cannot reveal unpredicted properties, such as fragmented RFs or subpopulations. This is a critical limitation in studies on adaptation, pathology or reorganization. Here, we introduce micro-probing (MP), a technique for fine-grained and largely assumption free characterization of multiple pRFs within a voxel. It overcomes many limitations of current approaches by enabling detection of unexpected RF shapes, properties and subpopulations, by enhancing the spatial detail with which we analyze the data. MP is based on tiny, fixed-size, Gaussian models that efficiently sample the entire visual space and create fine-grained probe maps. Subsequently, we derived population receptive fields (pRFs) from these maps. We demonstrate the scope of our method through simulations and by mapping the visual fields of healthy participants and of a patient group with highly abnormal RFs due to a congenital pathway disorder. Without using specific stimuli or adapted models, MP mapped the bilateral pRFs characteristic of observers with albinism. In healthy observers, MP revealed that voxels may capture the activity of multiple subpopulations RFs that sample distinct regions of the visual field. Thus, MP provides a versatile framework to visualize, analyze and model, without restrictions, the diverse RFs of cortical subpopulations in health and disease.
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- Joana Carvalho
- Laboratory of Experimental Ophthalmology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands.
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- Laboratory of Experimental Ophthalmology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany; Center for Behavioral Brain Sciences, Magdeburg, Germany
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- Laboratory of Experimental Ophthalmology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands; Cognitive Neuroscience Center, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Netherlands
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- Laboratory of Experimental Ophthalmology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
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Ahmadi K, Herbik A, Wagner M, Kanowski M, Thieme H, Hoffmann MB. Population receptive field and connectivity properties of the early visual cortex in human albinism. Neuroimage 2019; 202:116105. [PMID: 31422172 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.116105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2019] [Revised: 07/28/2019] [Accepted: 08/14/2019] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
Abstract
In albinism, the pathological decussation of the temporal retinal afferents at the optic chiasm leads to superimposed representations of opposing hemifields in the visual cortex. Here, we assessed the equivalence of the two representations and the cortico-cortical connectivity of the early visual areas. Applying fMRI-based population receptive field (pRF)-mapping (both hemifield and bilateral mapping) and connective field (CF)-modeling, we investigated the early visual cortex in 6 albinotic participants and 4 controls. In albinism, superimposed retinotopic representations of the contra- and ipsilateral visual hemifield were observed on the hemisphere contralateral to the stimulated eye. This was confirmed by the observation of bilateral pRFs during bilateral mapping. Hemifield mapping revealed similar pRF-sizes for both hemifield representations throughout V1 to V3. The typical increase of V1-sampling extent for V3 compared to V2 was not found for the albinotic participants. The similarity of the pRF-sizes for opposing visual hemifield representations highlights the equivalence of the two maps in the early visual cortex. The altered V1-sampling extent in V3 might indicate the adaptation of cortico-cortical connections to visual pathway abnormalities in albinism. These findings thus suggest that conservative developmental mechanisms are complemented by alterations of the extrastriate cortico-cortical connectivity.
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- Khazar Ahmadi
- Department of Ophthalmology, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany; Center for Behavioral Brain Sciences, Magdeburg, Germany.
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Walsh CA. Rainer W. Guillery and the genetic analysis of brain development. Eur J Neurosci 2019; 49:900-908. [PMID: 30152010 PMCID: PMC6393213 DOI: 10.1111/ejn.14135] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2018] [Revised: 08/16/2018] [Accepted: 08/17/2018] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
Abstract
Ray Guillery had broad research interests that spanned cellular neuroanatomy, but was perhaps best known for his investigation of the connectivity and function of the thalamus, especially the visual pathways. His work on the genetics of abnormal vision in albino mammals served as an early paradigm for genetic approaches for studying brain connectivity of complex species in general, and remains of major relevance today. This work, especially on the Siamese cat, illustrates the complex relationship between genotype and physiology of cerebral cortical circuits, and anticipated many of the issues underlying the imperfect relationship between genes, circuits, and behavior in mammalian species including human. This review also briefly summarizes studies from our own lab inspired by Ray Guillery's legacy that continues to explore the relationship between genes, structure, and behavior in human cerebral cortex.
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- Christopher A. Walsh
- Division of Genetics and Genomics Howard Hughes Medical Institute Boston Children’s Hospital Departments of Pediatrics and Neurology Harvard Medical School CLS15062, 3 Blackfan Circle Boston MA 02115,
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Ahmadi K, Fracasso A, van Dijk JA, Kruijt C, van Genderen M, Dumoulin SO, Hoffmann MB. Altered organization of the visual cortex in FHONDA syndrome. Neuroimage 2018. [PMID: 29524626 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.02.053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
Abstract
A fundamental scheme in the organization of the early visual cortex is the retinotopic representation of the contralateral visual hemifield on each hemisphere. We determined the cortical organization in a novel congenital visual pathway disorder, FHONDA-syndrome, where the axons from the temporal retina abnormally cross to the contralateral hemisphere. Using ultra-high field fMRI at 7 T, the population receptive field (pRF) properties of the primary visual cortex were modeled for two affected individuals and two controls. The cortical activation in FHONDA was confined to the hemisphere contralateral to the stimulated eye. Each cortical location was found to contain a pRF in each visual hemifeld and opposing hemifields were represented as retinotopic cortical overlays of mirror-symmetrical locations across the vertical meridian. Since, the enhanced crossing of the retinal fibers at the optic chiasm observed in FHONDA has been previously assumed to be exclusive to the pigment-deficiency in albinism, our direct evidence of abnormal mapping in FHONDA highlights the independence of pigmentation and development of the visual cortex. These findings thus provide fundamental insights into the developmental mechanisms of the human visual system and underline the general relevance of the interplay of subcortical stability and cortical plasticity.
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- Khazar Ahmadi
- Department of Ophthalmology, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany
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- Department of Experimental Psychology, Helmholtz Institute, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands; Department of Radiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands; Spinoza Centre for Neuroimaging, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QB, UK
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- Department of Experimental Psychology, Helmholtz Institute, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands; Spinoza Centre for Neuroimaging, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Bartiméus Diagnostic Center for Rare Visual Disorders, Zeist, The Netherlands; Department of Ophthalmology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Bartiméus Diagnostic Center for Rare Visual Disorders, Zeist, The Netherlands; Department of Ophthalmology University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Experimental Psychology, Helmholtz Institute, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands; Spinoza Centre for Neuroimaging, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Department of Experimental and Applied Psychology, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany; Center for Behavioral Brain Sciences, Magdeburg, Germany.
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Brown HDH, Woodall RL, Kitching RE, Baseler HA, Morland AB. Using magnetic resonance imaging to assess visual deficits: a review. Ophthalmic Physiol Opt 2017; 36:240-65. [PMID: 27112223 PMCID: PMC4855621 DOI: 10.1111/opo.12293] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2015] [Accepted: 02/15/2016] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Purpose Over the last two decades, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has been widely used in neuroscience research to assess both structure and function in the brain in health and disease. With regard to vision research, prior to the advent of MRI, researchers relied on animal physiology and human post‐mortem work to assess the impact of eye disease on visual cortex and connecting structures. Using MRI, researchers can non‐invasively examine the effects of eye disease on the whole visual pathway, including the lateral geniculate nucleus, striate and extrastriate cortex. This review aims to summarise research using MRI to investigate structural, chemical and functional effects of eye diseases, including: macular degeneration, retinitis pigmentosa, glaucoma, albinism, and amblyopia. Recent Findings Structural MRI has demonstrated significant abnormalities within both grey and white matter densities across both visual and non‐visual areas. Functional MRI studies have also provided extensive evidence of functional changes throughout the whole of the visual pathway following visual loss, particularly in amblyopia. MR spectroscopy techniques have also revealed several abnormalities in metabolite concentrations in both glaucoma and age‐related macular degeneration. GABA‐edited MR spectroscopy on the other hand has identified possible evidence of plasticity within visual cortex. Summary Collectively, using MRI to investigate the effects on the visual pathway following disease and dysfunction has revealed a rich pattern of results allowing for better characterisation of disease. In the future MRI will likely play an important role in assessing the impact of eye disease on the visual pathway and how it progresses over time.
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- Department of Psychology, University of York, York, UK.,Hull York Medical School, University of York, York, UK
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- Department of Psychology, University of York, York, UK.,Hull York Medical School, University of York, York, UK
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Fracasso A, Koenraads Y, Porro GL, Dumoulin SO. Bilateral population receptive fields in congenital hemihydranencephaly. Ophthalmic Physiol Opt 2017; 36:324-34. [PMID: 27112226 DOI: 10.1111/opo.12294] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2015] [Accepted: 02/22/2016] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
Abstract
PURPOSE Congenital hemihydranencephaly (HH) is a very rare disorder characterised by prenatal near-complete unilateral loss of the cerebral cortex. We investigated a patient affected by congenital right HH whose visual field extended significantly into the both visual hemifields, suggesting a reorganisation of the remaining left visual hemisphere. We examined the early visual cortex reorganisation using functional MRI (7T) and population receptive field (pRF) modelling. METHODS Data were acquired by means of a 7T MRI while the patient affected by HH viewed conventional population receptive field mapping stimuli. Two possible pRF reorganisation schemes were evaluated: where every cortical location processed information from either (i) a single region of the visual field or (ii) from two bilateral regions of the visual field. RESULTS In the patient affected by HH, bilateral pRFs in single cortical locations of the remaining hemisphere were found. In addition, using this specific pRF reorganisation scheme, the biologically known relationship between pRF size and eccentricity was found. CONCLUSIONS Bilateral pRFs were found in the remaining left hemisphere of the patient affected by HH, indicating reorganisation of intra-cortical wiring of the early visual cortex and confirming brain plasticity and reorganisation after an early cerebral damage in humans.
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- Alessio Fracasso
- Department of Experimental Psychology, Helmholtz Institute, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.,Department of Radiology, Imaging Division, University Medical Centre, Utrecht, The Netherlands.,Spinoza Centre for Neuroimaging, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Ophthalmology, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Ophthalmology, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Experimental Psychology, Helmholtz Institute, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.,Spinoza Centre for Neuroimaging, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Prieur DS, Rebsam A. Retinal axon guidance at the midline: Chiasmatic misrouting and consequences. Dev Neurobiol 2017; 77:844-860. [PMID: 27907266 DOI: 10.1002/dneu.22473] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2016] [Revised: 10/18/2016] [Accepted: 11/09/2016] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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The visual representation of the outside world relies on the appropriate connectivity between the eyes and the brain. Retinal ganglion cells are the sole neurons that send an axon from the retina to the brain, and thus the guidance decisions of retinal axons en route to their targets in the brain shape the neural circuitry that forms the basis of vision. Here, we focus on the choice made by retinal axons to cross or avoid the midline at the optic chiasm. This decision allows each brain hemisphere to receive inputs from both eyes corresponding to the same visual hemifield, and is thus crucial for binocular vision. In achiasmatic conditions, all retinal axons from one eye project to the ipsilateral brain hemisphere. In albinism, abnormal guidance of retinal axons at the optic chiasm leads to a change in the ratio of contralateral and ipsilateral projections with the consequence that each brain hemisphere receives inputs primarily from the contralateral eye instead of an almost equal distribution from both eyes in humans. In both cases, this misrouting of retinal axons leads to reduced visual acuity and poor depth perception. While this defect has been known for decades, mouse genetics have led to a better understanding of the molecular mechanisms at play in retinal axon guidance and at the origin of the guidance defect in albinism. In addition, fMRI studies on humans have now confirmed the anatomical and functional consequences of axonal misrouting at the chiasm that were previously only assumed from animal models. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Develop Neurobiol 77: 844-860, 2017.
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- Delphine S Prieur
- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, UMR-S 839, Paris, 75005, France.,Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, 75005, France.,Institut du Fer à Moulin, Paris, 75005, France
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- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, UMR-S 839, Paris, 75005, France.,Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, 75005, France.,Institut du Fer à Moulin, Paris, 75005, France
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Hemifield columns co-opt ocular dominance column structure in human achiasma. Neuroimage 2016; 164:59-66. [PMID: 28017921 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.12.063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2016] [Revised: 12/06/2016] [Accepted: 12/21/2016] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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In the absence of an optic chiasm, visual input to the right eye is represented in primary visual cortex (V1) in the right hemisphere, while visual input to the left eye activates V1 in the left hemisphere. Retinotopic mapping In V1 reveals that in each hemisphere left and right visual hemifield representations are overlaid (Hoffmann et al., 2012). To explain how overlapping hemifield representations in V1 do not impair vision, we tested the hypothesis that visual projections from nasal and temporal retina create interdigitated left and right visual hemifield representations in V1, similar to the ocular dominance columns observed in neurotypical subjects (Victor et al., 2000). We used high-resolution fMRI at 7T to measure the spatial distribution of responses to left- and right-hemifield stimulation in one achiasmic subject. T2-weighted 2D Spin Echo images were acquired at 0.8mm isotropic resolution. The left eye was occluded. To the right eye, a presentation of flickering checkerboards alternated between the left and right visual fields in a blocked stimulus design. The participant performed a demanding orientation-discrimination task at fixation. A general linear model was used to estimate the preference of voxels in V1 to left- and right-hemifield stimulation. The spatial distribution of voxels with significant preference for each hemifield showed interdigitated clusters which densely packed V1 in the right hemisphere. The spatial distribution of hemifield-preference voxels in the achiasmic subject was stable between two days of testing and comparable in scale to that of human ocular dominance columns. These results are the first in vivo evidence showing that visual hemifield representations interdigitate in achiasmic V1 following a similar developmental course to that of ocular dominance columns in V1 with intact optic chiasm.
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Sengupta A, Kaule FR, Guntupalli JS, Hoffmann MB, Häusler C, Stadler J, Hanke M. A studyforrest extension, retinotopic mapping and localization of higher visual areas. Sci Data 2016; 3:160093. [PMID: 27779618 PMCID: PMC5079119 DOI: 10.1038/sdata.2016.93] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2016] [Accepted: 06/14/2016] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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The studyforrest (http://studyforrest.org) dataset is likely the largest neuroimaging dataset on natural language and story processing publicly available today. In this article, along with a companion publication, we present an update of this dataset that extends its scope to vision and multi-sensory research. 15 participants of the original cohort volunteered for a series of additional studies: a clinical examination of visual function, a standard retinotopic mapping procedure, and a localization of higher visual areas-such as the fusiform face area. The combination of this update, the previous data releases for the dataset, and the companion publication, which includes neuroimaging and eye tracking data from natural stimulation with a motion picture, form an extremely versatile and comprehensive resource for brain imaging research-with almost six hours of functional neuroimaging data across five different stimulation paradigms for each participant. Furthermore, we describe employed paradigms and present results that document the quality of the data for the purpose of characterising major properties of participants' visual processing stream.
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- Ayan Sengupta
- Experimental Psychology Lab, Institute of Psychology, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg D-39016, Germany
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- Psychoinformatics Lab, Institute of Psychology, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg D-39016, Germany
- Visual Processing Laboratory, Department of Ophthalmology, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg D-39120, Germany
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- Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755, USA
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- Visual Processing Laboratory, Department of Ophthalmology, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg D-39120, Germany
- Center for Behavioral Brain Sciences, Magdeburg D-39016, Germany
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- Psychoinformatics Lab, Institute of Psychology, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg D-39016, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg D-39118, Germany
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- Psychoinformatics Lab, Institute of Psychology, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg D-39016, Germany
- Center for Behavioral Brain Sciences, Magdeburg D-39016, Germany
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Welton T, Ather S, Proudlock FA, Gottlob I, Dineen RA. Altered whole-brain connectivity in albinism. Hum Brain Mapp 2016; 38:740-752. [PMID: 27684406 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.23414] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2016] [Revised: 09/13/2016] [Accepted: 09/19/2016] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Albinism is a group of congenital disorders of the melanin synthesis pathway. Multiple ocular, white matter and cortical abnormalities occur in albinism, including a greater decussation of nerve fibres at the optic chiasm, foveal hypoplasia and nystagmus. Despite this, visual perception is largely preserved. It was proposed that this may be attributable to reorganisation among cerebral networks, including an increased interhemispheric connectivity of the primary visual areas. A graph-theoretic model was applied to explore brain connectivity networks derived from resting-state functional and diffusion-tensor magnetic resonance imaging data in 23 people with albinism and 20 controls. They tested for group differences in connectivity between primary visual areas and in summary network organisation descriptors. Main findings were supplemented with analyses of control regions, brain volumes and white matter microstructure. Significant functional interhemispheric hyperconnectivity of the primary visual areas in the albinism group were found (P = 0.012). Tests of interhemispheric connectivity based on the diffusion-tensor data showed no significant group difference (P = 0.713). Second, it was found that a range of functional whole-brain network metrics were abnormal in people with albinism, including the clustering coefficient (P = 0.005), although this may have been driven partly by overall differences in connectivity, rather than reorganisation. Based on the results, it was suggested that changes occur in albinism at the whole-brain level, and not just within the visual processing pathways. It was proposed that their findings may reflect compensatory adaptations to increased chiasmic decussation, foveal hypoplasia and nystagmus. Hum Brain Mapp 38:740-752, 2017. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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- Thomas Welton
- Radiological Sciences, Division of Clinical Neuroscience, University of Nottingham, Room W/B 1441, Queen's Medical Centre, Derby Road, Nottingham, NG7 2UH, United Kingdom
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- Radiological Sciences, Division of Clinical Neuroscience, University of Nottingham, Room W/B 1441, Queen's Medical Centre, Derby Road, Nottingham, NG7 2UH, United Kingdom.,Leicester Royal Infirmary, Ulverscroft Eye Unit, Ophthalmology, University of Leicester, Knighton Street Offices, Leicester, LE2 7LX, United Kingdom
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- Leicester Royal Infirmary, Ulverscroft Eye Unit, Ophthalmology, University of Leicester, Knighton Street Offices, Leicester, LE2 7LX, United Kingdom
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- Leicester Royal Infirmary, Ulverscroft Eye Unit, Ophthalmology, University of Leicester, Knighton Street Offices, Leicester, LE2 7LX, United Kingdom
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- Radiological Sciences, Division of Clinical Neuroscience, University of Nottingham, Room W/B 1441, Queen's Medical Centre, Derby Road, Nottingham, NG7 2UH, United Kingdom
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Bao P, Purington CJ, Tjan BS. Using an achiasmic human visual system to quantify the relationship between the fMRI BOLD signal and neural response. eLife 2015; 4. [PMID: 26613411 PMCID: PMC4764551 DOI: 10.7554/elife.09600] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2015] [Accepted: 11/26/2015] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Achiasma in humans causes gross mis-wiring of the retinal-fugal projection, resulting in overlapped cortical representations of left and right visual hemifields. We show that in areas V1-V3 this overlap is due to two co-located but non-interacting populations of neurons, each with a receptive field serving only one hemifield. Importantly, the two populations share the same local vascular control, resulting in a unique organization useful for quantifying the relationship between neural and fMRI BOLD responses without direct measurement of neural activity. Specifically, we can non-invasively double local neural responses by stimulating both neuronal populations with identical stimuli presented symmetrically across the vertical meridian to both visual hemifields, versus one population by stimulating in one hemifield. Measurements from a series of such doubling experiments show that the amplitude of BOLD response is proportional to approximately 0.5 power of the underlying neural response. Reanalyzing published data shows that this inferred relationship is general.
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- Pinglei Bao
- Neuroscience Graduate Program, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, United States
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- School of Optometry, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States.,Vision Science Graduate Program, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, United States.,Department of Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- Neuroscience Graduate Program, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, United States.,Department of Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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Wandell BA, Winawer J. Computational neuroimaging and population receptive fields. Trends Cogn Sci 2015; 19:349-57. [PMID: 25850730 DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2015.03.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 116] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2015] [Revised: 03/09/2015] [Accepted: 03/16/2015] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) noninvasively measures human brain activity at millimeter resolution. Scientists use different approaches to take advantage of the remarkable opportunities presented by fMRI. Here, we describe progress using the computational neuroimaging approach in human visual cortex, which aims to build models that predict the neural responses from the stimulus and task. We focus on a particularly active area of research, the use of population receptive field (pRF) models to characterize human visual cortex responses to a range of stimuli, in a variety of tasks and different subject populations.
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- Brian A Wandell
- Psychology Department and Neurosciences Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
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- Psychology Department and Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York, NY, USA.
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The visual system is beautifully crafted to transmit information of the external world to visual processing and cognitive centers in the brain. For visual information to be relayed to the brain, a series of axon pathfinding events must take place to ensure that the axons of retinal ganglion cells, the only neuronal cell type in the retina that sends axons out of the retina, find their way out of the eye to connect with targets in the brain. In the past few decades, the power of molecular and genetic tools, including the generation of genetically manipulated mouse lines, have multiplied our knowledge about the molecular mechanisms involved in the sculpting of the visual system. Here, we review major advances in our understanding of the mechanisms controlling the differentiation of RGCs, guidance of their axons from the retina to the primary visual centers, and the refinement processes essential for the establishment of topographic maps and eye-specific axon segregation. Human disorders, such as albinism and achiasmia, that impair RGC axon growth and guidance and, thus, the establishment of a fully functioning visual system will also be discussed.
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- Lynda Erskine
- School of Medical Sciences, Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
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- Instituto de Neurosciencias de Alicante, CSIC-UMH, San Juan de Alicante, Spain
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Hoffmann MB, Dumoulin SO. Congenital visual pathway abnormalities: a window onto cortical stability and plasticity. Trends Neurosci 2014; 38:55-65. [PMID: 25448619 DOI: 10.1016/j.tins.2014.09.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2014] [Revised: 09/18/2014] [Accepted: 09/26/2014] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
Abstract
Sensory systems project information in a highly organized manner to the brain, where it is preserved in maps of the sensory structures. These sensory projections are altered in congenital abnormalities, such as anophthalmia, albinism, achiasma, and hemihydranencephaly. Consequently, these abnormalities, profoundly affect the organization of the visual system. Surprisingly, visual perception remains largely intact, except for anophthalmia. Recent brain imaging advances shed light on the mechanisms that underlie this phenomenon. In contrast to animal models, in humans the plasticity of thalamocortical connections appears limited, thus demonstrating the importance of cortical adaptations. We suggest that congenital visual pathway abnormalities provide a valuable model to investigate the principles of plasticity that make visual representations available for perception and behavior in humans.
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- Michael B Hoffmann
- Department of Ophthalmology, Visual Processing Laboratory, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany; Center for Behavioral Brain Sciences, Magdeburg, Germany.
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- Department of Experimental Psychology, Helmholtz Institute, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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