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lecture2024-08 | The Human Brain

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Thank you, your email will be added to the mailing list once you click on the link in the confirmation email. Spam protection has stopped this request. Please contact site owner for help. This form is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Hunayn Ibn Ishaq (809-873) wrote "Ten Treatises On Ophthalmology". Ishaq was born in southern Iraq and went to Baghdad to study medicine. He became well known as a translator of Greek texts into Arabic. However, he also published original studies, including the Ten Treatises. This occurred during the early middle ages (or, Dark Ages) in Europe. The major work of Ishaq was later plagiarized and attributed to a European writer during the Enlightenment. Ishaq's work overcame early conceptualizations of Galen, among others, that vision was related to a type of fire that emanated from the eyes. The evidence for this fire was the “seeing stars” phenomena that occurs with a blow to the head. These were interpreted a

Vision Topics To introduce the general issues related to the transduction of light into vision. To describe the anatomy and physiology of the eye and retina. To discuss two forms of neural coding: lateral inhibition and color opponency. To describe the major sub-modality pathways (M, P, and K) leaving the retina from specialized ganglion cells. To describe the targets of optic nerve projections. To discuss different form of brain damage on visual perception. Preparation for Class Reading: PN6 Chapter 12 Topic Slide Ten Treatise on Opthalmology Hunayn Ibn Ishaq (809-873) wrote "Ten Treatises On

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