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ReviewFrontiers in neuroscience2023

Retinal electrophysiology in central nervous system disorders. A review of human and mouse studies.

Paul A Constable, Jeremiah K H Lim, Dorothy A Thompson

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Review in Frontiers in neuroscience, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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21citing papers in PubMed
5.5field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

21 citing papers in PubMed, 36 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Measuring electroretinograms in tree shrews with a portable electrophysiology device.Documenta ophthalmologica. Advances in ophthalmology · 2026
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  8. The reproducibility of handheld ERGs recorded with skin electrode and natural pupils.Documenta ophthalmologica. Advances in ophthalmology · 2025
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  13. Brief report: effects of methylphenidate on the light adapted electroretinogram.Documenta ophthalmologica. Advances in ophthalmology · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Paul A ConstableCollege of Nursing and Health Sciences, Caring Futures Institute, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA, Australia.
Jeremiah K H LimDiscipline of Optometry, School of Allied Health, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia.
Dorothy A ThompsonThe Tony Kriss Visual Electrophysiology Unit, Clinical and Academic Department of Ophthalmology, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom.
Flinders University · AUGreat Ormond Street Hospital · GBThe University of Western Australia · AU

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The retina and brain share similar neurochemistry and neurodevelopmental origins, with the retina, often viewed as a "window to the brain." With retinal measures of structure and function becoming easier to obtain in clinical populations there is a growing interest in using retinal findings as potential biomarkers for disorders affecting the central nervous system. Functional retinal biomarkers, such as the electroretinogram, show promise in neurological disorders, despite having limitations imposed by the existence of overlapping genetic markers, clinical traits or the effects of medications that may reduce their specificity in some conditions. This narrative review summarizes the principal functional retinal findings in central nervous system disorders and related mouse models and provides a background to the main excitatory and inhibitory retinal neurotransmitters that have been implicated to explain the visual electrophysiological findings. These changes in retinal neurochemistry may contribute to our understanding of these conditions based on the findings of retinal electrophysiological tests such as the flash, pattern, multifocal electroretinograms, and electro-oculogram. It is likely that future applications of signal analysis and machine learning algorithms will offer new insights into the pathophysiology, classification, and progression of these clinical disorders including autism, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, depression, Parkinson's, and Alzheimer's disease. New clinical applications of visual electrophysiology to this field may lead to earlier, more accurate diagnoses and better targeted therapeutic interventions benefiting individual patients and clinicians managing these individuals and their families.

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central nervous systemelectro-oculogramelectroretinogramERGPERGpsychiatryretinaretinal biomarkers

Identifiers

PMID37600004
PMCPMC10433210
OpenAlexW4385493668

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