Marion Mutter

TL;DR: Investigation of the survival of ganglion cells in ischemic pig and human retina as a function of time and temperature demonstrates that hypothermia greatly increases survival of retinal ganglions exposed to ischemia.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate properties of channelrhodopsin that might improve successful vision restoration, focusing on the operational brightness range and suggest strategies that would allow optogenetic vision over a wider intensity range than currently possible, spanning the brightest 5 orders of naturally occurring luminance.

TL;DR: Three different successful approaches that have been applied to degenerated mouse retina are discussed and the goal is to salvage the retinal ruins and to revert the leftover tissue into a functional visual sensor that operates as optimally as possible.

TL;DR: It is shown that in situations were the stimulus elicits a strong change in firing rate, the extensions yield a boost in stimulus decoding performance, suggesting that taking into account the baseline can be important for finding a compact information-rich representation of neural activity.