Amblyopia Research Canada

A new special issue of Frontiers in Neuroscience, “Development and neuroplasticity of the visual system, amblyopia and beyond,” brings together recent research spanning cellular, behavioural, and clinical approaches to visual development and plasticity. The collection highlights the increasingly broad view of amblyopia as a disorder affecting more than visual acuity, with contributions addressing perceptual distortions, binocular vision, suppression, neural plasticity, and recovery.

The Research Topic was edited by network members Kevin Duffy, Alex Baldwin, Anna Kosovicheva, Benjamin Thompson, and Krista Kelly, representing four Canadian institutions.

Editorial: Development and neuroplasticity of the visual system, amblyopia and beyond

Kevin R. Duffy; Alex S. Baldwin; Anna Kosovicheva; Benjamin Thompson; Krista R. Kelly

Neurophysiological basis for visual distortions in amblyopia

Laurie Goulet; Reza Farivar

The impact of amblyopia, reduced viewing conditions and binocular vision on reading ability: a narrative review

Nicole A. Dranitsaris; Alexandre Reynaud

A high-dimensional atlas of parvalbumin interneuron soma morphology in mouse visual and somatosensory cortex

Maheshwar Panday; Leanne Monteiro; Ahad Daudi; Kathryn M. Murphy

The effects of unilateral deprivation amblyopia on fixation stability

M. Nasir; X. Chen; B. M. Stanley; D. Maurer; D. I. Shore; B. Thompson; A. M. F. Wong; E. Niechwiej-Szwedo

Sex as a biological variable in amblyopia: implications for developmental plasticity and treatment

Kathryn M. Murphy; Leanne Monteiro; Maheshwar Panday; Nadine Barone

Rethinking perceptual distortions in amblyopia: toward a multi-feature, visual-field-wide perspective

Haneieh Molaei; Reza Farivar

Short-term amblyopic eye deprivation boosts the binocular intermodulation in anisometropic amblyopia

Siyuan Deng; Fang Li; Wenbin Huang

Loss and recovery of neurofilament in the cat lateral geniculate nucleus following monocular retinal inactivation

Andrea De Paola; Robert W. Jones; Jonathon M. Henneberry; Kevin R. Duffy

The influence of prior brief occlusion therapy on the outcome of later amblyopia treatment in cats

Donald E. Mitchell; Seth Smith; Nicholas D. Murphy; Lan T. J. Dang; Nathan A. Crowder; Kevin R. Duffy

Contribution of binocular visual function and its impairment by Bangerter foils to the performance of a precision reaching, grasping and placing task in healthy adults

Pilar Granados-Delgado; Miriam Casares-López; José Juan Castro-Torres; Xiaoxin Chen; Ewa Niechwiej-Szwedo

The why, how and where of amblyopic suppression

Robert Francis Hess