The Changing Visual System

Development of the Primate Visual System Throughout Life.- Modern Theories of Aging and their Application to Ocular Senescence.- Animal Models of Life-span Development.- Ontogenetic Clues to the Phylogeny of the Visual System.- Are Visual Hierarchies in the Brains of the Beholders? Constancy and Variability in the Visual System of Birds and Mammals.- The Centrifugal Visual System: What Can Comparative Studies Tell Us About Its Evolution and Possible Function?.- Blockade of Proteolytic Activity Retards Retrograde Degeneration of Axotomized Retinal Ganglion Cells and Enhances Axonal Regeneration in Organ Cultures.- Organization and Development of Sparsely Distributed Wide-field Amacrine Cells in the Rabbit Retina.- Aging and Spatial Contrast Sensitivity: Underlying Mechanisms and Implications for Everyday Life.- Life-span Changes in the Visual Acuity and Retina of Birds.- Plasticity of Synaptic Connections in the Adult Vertebrate Retina.- New Aspects of Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms in Learning Processes.- Maturation and Plasticity of Neuropeptides in the Visual System.- Development and Plasticity of the Tectofugal Visual Pathway in the Zebra Finch.- Spatio-temporal Properties of the Pattern ERG and VEP: Effect of Ageing.- Methods and Models for Specifying Sites and Mechanisms of Sensitivity Regulation in the Aging Visual System.- Structural Organization and Development of Identified Projection Neurons in Primary Visual Cortex.- Developmental Status of Intrinsic Connections in Visual Cortex of Newborn Humans.- Development of the Visual Cortex Deprived Prenatally of Retinal Cues.- Sensorial and Sensorimotor Phenomena in Strabismus.- Age, Sex and Light Damage in the Avian Retina: A Model System.- The Damaging Effects of Light on the Eye and Implications for Understanding Changes in Vision across the Life Span.- Cellular and Molecular Aspects of Neuronal Differentiation.- VGF: A Tissue Specific Protein and a Marker of NGF-Induced Neuronal Differentiation.- Nerve Growth Factor (NGF) Prevents the Effects of Monocular Deprivation in the Rat.- Evidence for a Role of NGF in the Visual System.- Ipsilateral Projections During Development and Regeneration of the Optic Nerve of the Cichlid Fish Haplochromis burtoni.- Abnormal Organization of the Human Retina in a Genetic Disorder (Bloch-Sulzberger Syndrome).- Visual System in Some Systemic Diseases.- Effects of Intraocular Activity Blockade on the Morphology of Developing LGN Neurons in the Cat.- Development of Orientation-Specific Neuronal Responses in Ferret Primary Visual Cortex.- Development of the Tyrosine Hydroxylase Immunoreactive Cell Population in the Rabbit Retina.- Emergence of Visual Cortical Areas: Patterns of Development of Neuropeptide-Y Immunoreactivity and Somatostatin-immunoreactivity in the Cat.- Individual Differences in Contrast Sensitivity Functions of Human Adults and Infants: A Brief Review.- A Neural Network Model for Stripe Formation in Primate Visual Cortex.- Stereo Matching Using Relaxation Labeling Based on Edge and Orientation Features.- Contributors.