Recent Articles by SUNY Optometry Faculty

Targeting Connexin 43 in Retinal Astrocytes Promotes Neuronal Survival in Glaucomatous Injury
Saturday March 29, 2025

Astrocytes in the retina and optic nerve head play an important role in the pathogenesis of glaucoma. Astrocytes extensively express connexin 43 (Cx43), a protein[...]

Sustained Experimental Myopia Exacerbates the Effect of Eye Growth on Retinal Ganglion Cell Density and Function
Thursday March 27, 2025

The aim of this study is to describe the effect that sustained myopic eye growth has on the cellular distribution and function of retinal ganglion[...]

Subnuclear Phacoemulsification to Reduce Corneal Injury in Nuclear Cataract Surgery: Evidence From a Randomized Controlled Trial
Wednesday March 26, 2025

Objects: To assess the safety and effectiveness of subnuclear phacoemulsification (SNP), a new technique for reducing corneal injury in nuclear cataract surgery. Methods: This randomized[...]

Cognitive demand, concurrent viewing distances, and digital eyestrain
Friday March 21, 2025

CONCLUSIONS: Task-induced symptoms varied with both cognitive demand and mode of presentation. However, working distance did not vary significantly with these factors. The wording distance[...]

Dicer Loss in Müller Glia Leads to a Defined Sequence of Pathological Events Beginning With Cone Dysfunction
Tuesday March 04, 2025

CONCLUSIONS: MG Dicer loss in the adult mouse retina impacts cone function prior to any measurable changes in rod function, suggesting a pivotal role for[...]

Longitudinal development of ocular biometric components and refractive error in hyperopic children with infantile versus late-onset accommodative esotropia
Monday February 17, 2025

CONCLUSIONS: Major ocular biometric components in children continue to mature in both infantile and late-onset accommodative esotropia. Annual change in axial length is smaller in[...]

Resilience and its associated factors in optometry students from eight institutions across six countries
Monday February 03, 2025

CONCLUSION: Identifying factors that affect resilience in optometry students provides information for targeted strategies that enhance resilience. More work is required to understand the generalisability[...]

Experimental Myopia Results in Peripapillary Ganglion Cell and Astrocyte Reorganization with No Functional Implications During Early Development
Wednesday January 08, 2025

Myopic eye growth induces mechanical stretch, which can lead to structural and functional retinal alterations. Here, we investigated the effect of lens-induced myopic growth on[...]

Fast-Spike Interneurons in Visual Cortical Layer 5: Heterogeneous Response Properties Are Related to Thalamocortical Connectivity
Thursday December 12, 2024

Layer 4 (L4) of rabbit V1 contains fast-spike GABAergic interneurons (suspected inhibitory interneurons, SINs) that receive potent synaptic input from the LGN and generate fast,[...]

Retinal direction of motion is reliably transmitted to visual cortex through highly selective thalamocortical connections
Saturday December 07, 2024

Motion perception is crucial to animal survival and effective environmental interactions. In mammals, detection of movement begins in the retina. Directionally selective (DS) retinal ganglion[...]

OPTICAL BLUR AFFECTS DIFFERENTLY ON AND OFF VISUAL PATHWAYS
Friday November 01, 2024

The human eye has a crystalline lens that focuses retinal images at the point of fixation. Outside this fixation region, images are distorted by optical[...]

Model based fitting of pattern reversal visually evoked potentials provides a reliable characterization of waveform components
Monday October 07, 2024

CONCLUSIONS: The difference-of-gammas model provides a stable and reliable within-participant representation of the global temporal variability of prVEP waveforms across a large sample of youth.

Reference Database for a Novel Binocular Visual Function Perimeter: A Randomized Clinical Trial
Thursday September 12, 2024

CONCLUSIONS: An RDB for the TEMPO/IMOvifa perimeter was established, highlighting the significance of considering both age and stimulus eccentricity in interpreting threshold VF test results.

Evaluating theories of neural information integration during visual search
Monday July 15, 2024

The brain routes and integrates information from many sources during behavior. A number of models explain this phenomenon within the framework of mixed selectivity theory,[...]

Ocular Biometric Components in Hyperopic Children and a Machine Learning-Based Model to Predict Axial Length
Wednesday May 29, 2024

CONCLUSIONS: Despite similar values of refractive errors, ocular biometric parameters changed with age in hyperopic children, whereby axial length growth is offset by reductions in[...]

Binocular receptive-field construction in the primary visual cortex
Tuesday May 21, 2024

ON and OFF thalamic afferents from the two eyes converge in the primary visual cortex to form binocular receptive fields. The receptive fields need to[...]

Sustained Retinal Defocus Increases the Effect of Induced Myopia on the Retinal Astrocyte Template
Friday April 12, 2024

The aim of this article is to describe sustained myopic eye growth's effect on astrocyte cellular distribution and its association with inner retinal layer thicknesses.[...]

Early Alterations in Inner-Retina Neural and Glial Saturated Responses in Lens-Induced Myopia
Tuesday April 09, 2024

CONCLUSIONS: Marmosets induced with negative defocus exhibit early alterations in inner retinal saturated amplitudes compared to controls, prior to the development of compensatory myopia. These[...]

Physiological correlates of a simple saccadic-decision task to extended objects in superior colliculus
Monday April 01, 2024

Our vision is best only in the center of our gaze, and we use saccadic eye movements to direct gaze to objects and features of[...]

Why do we test at 40 cm?
Monday March 25, 2024

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