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Dissection of the Eye-Brain Complex from Fly Pupae: A Method to Isolate Retinal Tissue
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2023
This video describes how to dissect and isolate the eye-brain complex from Drosophila pupae. The featured protocol demonstrates the procedure yielding high-quality tissue, compatible with, for example, immunostaining, as well as, other gene expression experiments.
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The Gateway to the Brain: Dissecting the Primate Eye
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2009
The non-human primate is an important translational species for our understanding of development and aging. The anatomical organization of the primate retina may provide important insights into normal and pathological conditions in humans.
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Wholemount Immunohistochemistry for Revealing Complex Brain Topography
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2012
Neural circuits are topographically organized into functional compartments with specific molecular profiles. Here, we provide the practical and technical steps for revealing global brain topography using a versatile wholemount immunohistochemical staining approach. We demonstrate the utility of the method using the well-understood cytoarchitecture and circuitry of cerebellum.
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Eye Tracking During A Complex Aviation Task For Insights Into Information Processing
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2025
Eye tracking is a non-invasive method to probe information processing. This article describes how eye tracking can be used to study gaze behavior during a flight simulation emergency task in low-time pilots (i.e., <350 flight hours).
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Eye Tracking in Cognitive Experiments
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2023
Eye tracking as the name suggests involves tracking of eye-movements. It is a non-invasive, sensitive tool that quantifies and measures eye-movements to describe an individuals' cognitive state. An eye-movement between two fixation points is called a saccade, which is one of the fastest motor movements in our body. By observing the profiles of these eye movements, scientists can better understand neural deficits in patients with cognitive impairments. In this video, we will first look at an...
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Patterning converts the early optic vesicle into distinct retinal regions through interactions with surrounding tissues. This step links embryonic tissue specification to the later organization of visual neural structures, rather than treating the retina as an isolated tissue. Studying these interactions helps developmental biologists ask how local signals shape visual-system architecture during embryogenesis.
Retinal ganglion-cell axons provide a developmental route from the eye toward central brain targets. Their extension makes it possible to study axon guidance as a connection-building process, alongside tissue formation and maturation. In the eye-brain complex, examining these projections can therefore reveal whether visual structures become linked appropriately during neural development.
Its value lies in connecting several developmental questions within one system: how tissues acquire identity, how axons find central targets, and how neural circuits mature. That combination also makes it relevant to congenital disorders affecting vision. Rather than limiting analysis to one developmental event, researchers can relate early specification and later connectivity to vision-related abnormalities.
Experimental models of the eye-brain complex can support studies at several stages, from tissue formation and connection to maturation. They are therefore useful for investigating regeneration, disease mechanisms, and developmental toxicity, in addition to normal development. The model’s value comes from allowing these topics to be considered in relation to the eye and brain rather than separately.
In developmental biology, researchers can organize investigations around three linked outcomes: specification of retinal regions, extension of retinal ganglion-cell axons to central brain targets, and maturation of the connected system. This framework supports comparisons across stages of development and helps connect tissue-level changes with broader questions about axon guidance and neural circuit assembly.
Developmental toxicity studies can use this system to ask whether harmful effects disrupt formation, connectivity, or maturation. The eye and brain are considered together because their developmental relationship includes both retinal organization and axonal projections to central targets. This makes the framework relevant when a condition may affect visual development through more than one developmental process.