Researchers from the University of San Francisco (UCSF) found that children carrying a variant of the SCN2A gene, which is associated with severe ASD, had a hypersensitive vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR ...

This reflex is easy to provoke. Shake your head and your eyes will stay roughly centered. In mice with the SCN2A variant, however, the researchers discovered that this reflex was unusually sensitive.

On this reflex, monkeys and humans build their slow eye tracking movements with which they keep "an eye" on moving objects. Detecting maldevelopments in the visual system at an early stage ...

But the eye reflex test, on its own, could clear the way to more expedient autism diagnosis for kids today, saving families from long diagnostic odysseys. “If this sort of assessment works in our ...

An ancient brain circuit, which enables the eyes to reflexively rotate up as the body tilts down, tunes itself early in life as an animal develops, a new study finds.  ...

Now, a new study has characterized, for the first time, the neurons of the thalamus and cerebral cortex that respond to stimulation of the ocular surface. Advanced Search Home ...

Regarding the evolutionary significance of these results, experts consider that "the high functional diversity of these ocular neurons in the cerebral cortex guarantees that any kind of stimulus ...

A column-like organization for ocular dominance in mouse visual cortex layers 2/3, 4 and 5. Credit: Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-56780-3 ...

A simple eye-tracking device might help in the diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), a developmental disability that impacts how individuals interact and communicate with the world. Researchers ...