29.06.2011How to see? Vision processing and vision problems

Dr. Oliver Höffken, M.A., Neurological University Hospital Bergmannsheil, Faculty of Medicine, Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Vision is a matter of course. But the information processing of the light, falling into the eye, to the perception and recognition of an object is very complex and it evolves continuously from birth to adulthood. The importance of the brain for vision reveals when damages in the nervous system occur. In his lecture, Dr. Oliver Höffken demonstrates the various stages of vision from the transformation of light into nerve impulses in the eye to the information processing in the vision centers of the brain. On the basis of disease examples, he explains the appearance of typical vision disorders, which manifest themselves by certain disorders of the brain.