Neuronal circuits in the mouse retina
Neuronal circuits in the mouse retina. Cone photoreceptors (red) enable color vision; bipolar neurons (magenta) relay information further along the circuit; and a subtype of bipolar neuron (green) helps process signals sensed by other photoreceptors in dim light.
Melanie Samuel, a researcher at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, and who received a 2016 NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, wants to learn to reprogram the connections, or synapses, of brain circuits that function less well in aging and disease and limit our memory and ability to learn.
More information: directorsblog.nih.gov/2017/07/13/creative-minds-reprogram...
Credit: Brian Liu and Melanie Samuel, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston
This image is not owned by the NIH. It is shared with the public under license. If you have a question about using or reproducing this image, please contact the creator listed in the credits. All rights to the work remain with the original creator.
NIH support from: National Eye Institute; Common Fund
Neuronal circuits in the mouse retina
Neuronal circuits in the mouse retina. Cone photoreceptors (red) enable color vision; bipolar neurons (magenta) relay information further along the circuit; and a subtype of bipolar neuron (green) helps process signals sensed by other photoreceptors in dim light.
Melanie Samuel, a researcher at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, and who received a 2016 NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, wants to learn to reprogram the connections, or synapses, of brain circuits that function less well in aging and disease and limit our memory and ability to learn.
More information: directorsblog.nih.gov/2017/07/13/creative-minds-reprogram...
Credit: Brian Liu and Melanie Samuel, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston
This image is not owned by the NIH. It is shared with the public under license. If you have a question about using or reproducing this image, please contact the creator listed in the credits. All rights to the work remain with the original creator.
NIH support from: National Eye Institute; Common Fund