Postdoctoral Scholar
Alejandro Gallego-Ortega
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Postdoctoral Scholar
Field Lab · Greg D. Field
About
My research focuses on understanding how retinal diseases, particularly glaucoma, affect the structure and function of retinal ganglion cells, the neurons responsible for transmitting visual information from the retina to the brain. I am particularly interested in how changes in dendritic architecture relate to alterations in their receptive fields—the regions of the visual field that influence neuronal responses to visual stimuli—and how these structural and functional changes may contribute to visual dysfunction in glaucoma.