The Visual System

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Phototransduction Mutants of Drosophila Melanogaster

   • A. A. Alawi, V. Jennings, J. Grossfield, William L. Pak

   Pages 1-21

3. The Effects of Intracellular Ca²⁺ on the Light Response and on Light Adaptation in Limulus Ventral Photoreceptors

   • J. E. Lisman, J. E. Brown

   Pages 23-33

4. Some Observations on the Structure of Receptor Outer Limbs

   • R. A. Weale

   Pages 35-40

5. Light-Induced Conductance Changes in Rod Outer Segments

   • G. Falk, P. Fatt

   Pages 41-51

6. Structure of the Retinal Membrane Containing the Visual Pigments

   • A. E. Blaurock

   Pages 53-63

7. Receptor Potentials from a Visual Pigment with Two Thermally Stable States

   • S. Hochstein, B. Minke, P. Hillman

   Pages 65-73

8. Ion Gradients and Metabolic Activity in the Generation of Cone and Rod Responses

   • G. B. Arden, W. Ernst

   Pages 75-80

9. The Role of Metarhodopsin III in the Recovery of the PIII Photoresponse of Isolated Rat Retina after an Intense Light Exposure

   • W. Ernst, C. M. Kemp

   Pages 81-86

10. Light Adaptation of the Late Receptor Potential in the Cat Retina

    • Bert Sakmann, Michel Filion

    Pages 87-93

11. The Effect of Aspartate on the ERG of the Isolated Rabbit Retina

    • L. Wündsch, A. v. Lützow

    Pages 95-99

12. Electrical and Metabolic Manifestations of Receptor and Higher-Order Neuron Activity in Vertebrate Retina

    • W. Sickel

    Pages 101-118

13. Electrophysiological Application of the Living Extracorporeal Bovine Eye

    • Kitetsu Imaizumi, Yutaka Tazawa, Kenji Ogawa, Hirokazu Mera, Tadahiro Otsuka

    Pages 119-123

14. Directionally Selective Units in the Cat’s Lateral Geniculate Nucleus

    • Y. Fukada, H. Saito

    Pages 125-136

15. Proximal Negative Response of the Inner Plexiform Layer

    • A. L. Holden

    Pages 137-139

16. A Case of Amblyopia; Electrophysiology and Psychophysics of Luminance and Contrast

    • H. Spekreijse, Lee H. Khoe, L. H. van der Tweel

    Pages 141-156

17. Theoretical Models of the Generation of Steady-State Evoked Potentials, their Relation to Neuroanatomy and their Relevance to Certain Clinical Problems

    • Beryl A. Milner, D. Regan, J. R. Heron

    Pages 157-169

18. Evoked Potentials to Changes in the Chromatic Contrast and Luminance Contrast of Checkerboard Stimulus Patterns

    • D. Regan

    Pages 171-187

19. Scotopic Visibility Curve in Man Obtained by the VER

    • C. Huber, Emiko Adachi-Usami

    Pages 189-198

20. A Clinical Method for Obtaining Pattern Visual Evoked Responses

    • J. Behrman, S. Nissim, G. B. Arden

    Pages 199-206

The International Society for Clinical Electroretinography provides a link between scientists who are enlarging our understanding of the normal functioning of the visual pathway, and clinicians who investigate and treat visual disturbances. The chief function of the Society is to organise symposia, where, with skill born of long practice, the participants obtain the benefits of both social and scientific contact, without detriment to either. The result­ ing spread of information is documented both in the society's Newsletter, and by the publication of volumes such as this, the record of the 9th Symposium held at Brighton in 1971. This meeting was a joint Symposium of the ISCERG and the International Union of Physiological Sciences. The subjects covered represent merely the interests of the organisers. The biophysical studies are represented by chapters on such divers topics as the x-ray diffraction of receptor membranes and impedance properties of outer limb suspensions. Other papers deal with the problems of maintaining the retina in vitro in a physiological condition. Papers describing techniques for investigating the functional properties of the visual system shade into those which describe new aspects of human disease. In the past such serendipity has been of value as evidenced by compal-ison between this and previous volumes. In 1965 the physiological section of the Proceedings was largely devoted to a new elec­ trical response, the evoked potential of the visual cortex.

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• clinical application
• cortex
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• electroencephalography (EEG)
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• neuroanatomy
• physiology
• system

• Institute of Ophthalmology, University of London, London, England

  G. B. Arden

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