objective conjunctivitis is a common disease in neonates. several bacterial and viral infectious agents may cause it. tear circulation and blinking has protective effects from bacterial colonization in the conjuntival sac. reduced blinking increases the possibility of bacterial conjunctivitis. we studied the effect of eye patches on bacterial colonization of the conjunctival sac.  methods in 10...

Objective Conjunctivitis is a common disease in neonates. Several bacterial and viral infectious agents may cause it. Tear circulation and blinking has protective effects from bacterial colonization in the conjuntival sac. Reduced blinking increases the possibility of bacterial conjunctivitis. We studied the effect of eye patches on bacterial colonization of the conjunctival sac.  Methods In 1...

The significance of functional maps for cortical plasticity was investigated by imaging of intrinsic optical signals together with single-unit recording in kittens. After even a brief period of monocular deprivation during the height of the critical period, only isolated patches of visual cortex continued to respond strongly to the closed eye. These deprived-eye patches were located on the pinw...

PURPOSE To investigate light transmission and preference for six eye patches for occlusion therapy. METHODS Six patches were examined, including; Ortopad Fun Pack, Ortopad Flesh, Kawamoto A-1, Kawamoto A-2, 3M Opticlude, and Everade Eye Guard. The size and the presence of a light blocking pad of patches were investigated. The amount of light transmitted through the patches was evaluated, usin...

A monoclonal antibody that recognizes the carboxyl terminus of substance P was used to localize tachykinin-like immunoreactivity in neurons of area 17 of the adult monkey cerebral cortex. Tachykinin immunostaining was examined in normal monkeys, in monkeys receiving monocular injections of the sodium channel blocker TTX for 10 or 15 d, and in monkeys from which the crystalline lens of one eye h...

1. The relation between the physiological pattern of ocular dominance and the anatomical distribution of geniculocortical afferents serving each eye was studied in layer IV of the primary visual cortex of normal and monocularly deprived cats. 2. One eye was injected with radioactive label. After allowing sufficient time for transeuronal transport, micro-electrode recordings were made, and the g...

We studied the effects of visual grouping on binocular rivalry in the left and right hemispheres of a split-brain observer, JW. In Experiments 1 and 2, we compared responses to traditional rivalry stimuli (e.g., a red vertical grating presented to the left eye and a green horizontal grating presented to the right eye) with responses to Diaz-Caneja stimuli (i.e., half of each grating was present...