Introduction to Human Anatomy Lecture 20 Notes – Vision
Overview
Today is a 28 minute lecture on vision.
Details
Layers of the Eye:
fibrous layer: cornea, sclera
Vascular Layer: choroid, iris, ciliary body, pupil
sensory Layer – retina
The pupil is a hole through which rays of light go. The iris is a muscle that can contract or relax; it’s also pigmented. The outer part of the eye is the sclera. The wall of the eye made of the sclera, choroid, and the retina.
The choroid plexus forms cerebral fluid. Highly vascularized.
The fovea centralis is full of cones. Cones see color, rods see black and white. This is where the light rays focus.
In the rods, the name is the rhodopsin. It is activated by light, a photochemical reaction. It’s a protein plus retinal or vitamin A. Night blindness results from lack of vitamin A.
Rods and cones connect to bipolar neurons then to amacrine neurons to ganglion neurons to sensory neurons. The retina of the eye is a bit complicated.
Cone photoreceptors can be red, blue or green. Iodopsins are the proper chemical name. Cones give us resolution.
Aqueous humor in front, vitreous humor in back.
Pixels creates the color picture on a TV. By lighting up different combinations and intensities, different colors are represented.
Colorblindness is a genetic disorder. They lack some photoreceptors. Commonly, green or red is missing.
Most of the colorblind are male. It is a sex linked trait, XY versus XX. One X from ma, one X from pa. A woman needs a defect in both X’s. A man needs a defect only in one X.
Very few species see in colors. Dogs and cats don’t. They don’t have cone photoreceptors.
The occipital lobe is the primary visual center. Sensory information goes through the thalamus. The optic chiasm is where the nerves decesate or cross over to the other side.
The occular motor reflex center receives 25% of the wires. Homoeostatic reflex. 75% synapse in the thalamus.
Nerve fibers are in the optic nerve. Optic, occular, trochlear, abducens.
Review
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