Visual Development

1. Introduction
Nigel W. Daw

2. Functional Organization of the Visual System
Nigel W. Daw

Part I. Development of the Visual System

3. Development of Visual Capabilities
Nigel W. Daw

4. Anatomical Development of the Visual System
Nigel W. Daw

5. Development of Receptive Field Properties
Nigel W. Daw

Part II. Amblyopia and the Effects of Visual Deprivation

6. Modifications to the Visual Input That Lead to Nervous System Changes
Nigel W. Daw

7. Known Physiological and Anatomical Changes That Result from Optical and Motor Deficits
Nigel W. Daw

8. What Is Amblyopia?
Nigel W. Daw

9. Critical Periods
Nigel W. Daw

10. Treatment of Amblyopia
Nigel W. Daw

Part III. Mechanisms of Plasticity

11. Concepts of Plasticity
Nigel W. Daw

12. Plasticity in the Visual Cortex
Nigel W. Daw

13. Visually Induced Myopia and Emmetropization
Nigel W. Daw

Keywords: Biomedicine, Neurosciences, Ophthalmology, Biomedical Engineering