PHPH 621 The Visual System

Credits: 2
The goals of this course are:

To understand the basic cellular and physiological mechanisms underlying visual perception.
To critically review fundamental as well as recent published papers on important topics in vision research.
To examine the current understanding and treatment of several blindness diseases.

The materials will be divided into two courses to be offered in alternate years: One course will focus on the Cellular and Developmental Biology of the Visual System, and the other on the Neuroanatomy and neurophysiology of the Visual System.

Graded: Pass/No pass
May be taken only once for credit