Macaque Models of Visual Development and Disability

摘要: Publisher Summary The Old World macaque monkey has been shown to provide an excellent model for normal visual development in humans and understanding clinically important developmental disorders of vision. Animal studies general have contributed greatly our the vulnerability system early abnormal experience. These basic reasonable support weeks-equals-months relationship spatial most common cause vision loss children is amblyopia. Amblyopia classically defined as a acuity one eye with no obvious accompanying pathology. function proceeds systematic way both human nonhuman primates. Behavioral monkeys raised under conditions that mimic were conducted determine how well reflected losses found amblyopia explore underlying neural mechanisms. showed direct causality between impediment provided definitive information on nature critical period They also insight into basis had impact which treated children.