Summary
This dissertation investigates the retinal neural circuits responsible for innate visual behaviors in mice, with implications for understanding how light signals are transduced and processed beyond image formation. Understanding these circuits is foundational for designing lighting systems that effectively engage non-visual pathways such as circadian entrainment and alertness regulation.
Categories
The Science of Light: Examines retinal circuits and photoreceptor biology underlying innate visual behaviors, directly relevant to understanding how light signals are processed.
Sleep & Circadian Health: Retinal circuits, including ipRGCs, are central to circadian entrainment and light-dark cycle processing.
Author(s)
M Yilmaz Balban
Publication Year
2015
Related Publications
The Science of Light
- Phototransduction by retinal ganglion cells that set the circadian clock
- Color appearance models
- The mammalian circadian timing system: organization and coordination of central and peripheral clocks
- Diminished pupillary light reflex at high irradiances in melanopsin-knockout mice
- Melanopsin is required for non-image-forming photic responses in blind mice
Sleep & Circadian Health
- Phototransduction by retinal ganglion cells that set the circadian clock
- The mammalian circadian timing system: organization and coordination of central and peripheral clocks
- The twoāprocess model of sleep regulation: a reappraisal
- Melanopsin is required for non-image-forming photic responses in blind mice
- Strange vision: ganglion cells as circadian photoreceptors