Talk:Retinal ganglion cell

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Totally should split off RGC and add substantial content. I'll do it in a week or so unless people vote no. Votes? --Selket 07:25, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Absolutely agree- RGCs deserve there own space.

Yes, I agree Alexandermiller 03:27, 6 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yea, that should make it more confusing than it already is. This is already one of the more poorly developed articles on its own. There's not much to this article as it is. What other uses did you have in mind for a ganglion cell other than its connection to the retina? You may provide a more capable explanation of its interaction between the peripheral retina and the fovea and the rod and cones that feed them. Stevenmitchell 06:27, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry I haven't been able to get around to this. Ganglion cells occur all over the nervous system, not just in the retina. The spiral ganglion cells or sympathetic chain come to mind. -- Selket ^Talk 07:07, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You might also consider mentioning other organisms than primates. Midget cells (for example) don't exist in other mammal retinal ganglia. This article gives the impression it is exhaustive when it is not. It certainly doesn't deserve the title 'Ganglion cells'; such an article, as has been said, should include ganglia from other organisms and other areas of the body. As it is, this article should be titled 'Primate Retinal Ganglion Cells'.

Yes, this definitely needs to be changed. I'm a neuroscience student and I came to this page for a nice general definition of ganglion cell and freaked out for a second when the article only referred to RGCs. I thought for a couple of seconds that what I remembered from a while back was entirely wrong. The page misleads by not including ganglion cells from across the nervous system. El Rey de Hialeah 00:31, 29 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I suggest the current article under 'retinal ganglion cell' or 'ganglion cell layer'. If it's an issue, perhaps we should just provide links to 'ganglion' and 'retinal ganglion cell' under the article 'ganglion cell'.JanetK 21:06, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Could somebody check whether the cell types are correct? According to the book 'Exploring the Brain', alpha cells (M-cells) should be magnocellular, beta (P-)cells parvocellular! (4 July 2007)

Agree, should be titled "Retinal Ganglion Cells" and keep the title of the other article as "Ganglion"

I don't get the color vision page or this page. they are way too confusing. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.156.172.150 (talk) 23:11, 20 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Split[edit]

I suppose it makes sense to split the articles. Everyone above seems to agree. Fuzzform (talk) 03:14, 22 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Photosensitive ganglion cell[edit]

Note that we also have the above-mentioned article. Merging or improving them has been on my to-do list for ages. Anybody want to work with me on that? If there is no reason to have both articles, I'd prefer the Photosensitive title to the Retinal one. Thoughts? - Hordaland (talk) 08:02, 16 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

RGC names[edit]

The retinal people refer to these ganglion cells as midget and parasol, not parvocellular and magnocellular type. The midgets ganglion cell axons project to the parvocellular layers of the LGN, and the parasol ganglion cells project to the magnocellular layers. The small bistratified ganglion cells project to the koniocellular layers.

It would be good to fix this. Wandell (talk) 01:30, 20 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]