Word: wiesel
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They both turned to the eye as a window into the brain. "We worked separately in vision recording from single cells in different places, using slightly different methods," Wiesel said...
...David M. Hubel, Berry Professor of Neurobiology and Dr. Torsten N. Wiesel, Professor of Neurobiology, received the Trustees Award presented by Research to Prevent Blindness, Inc. (RPB). The award was established in 1966 to recognize "extraordinary scientific contributions to the science of ophthalmology...
Hubel and Wiesel, who have collaborated for many years, discovered that sight is controlled by a hierarchy of brain cells, with each cell passing on a small fragment of highly specialized visual information to a growing complexity of cells. These fragments are integrated into a complete image...
...Jules Stein, chairman of RPB, said the findings of Hubel and Wiesel are having a revolutionary influence in the treatment of a number of blinding conditions in the very young, including strabismus--commonly known as crossed eyes--a condition in which the two eyes do not operate in concert to produce a single image...
Hubel was born in Windsor, Ontario in 1926 and received his medical degree from McGill University Medical School in 1951. Wiesel was born in Upsala, Sweden, in 1924. He received his medical degree from the Karinska Institute in Stockholm...