Donald C. Hood, PhD

Donald C. Hood, PhD

Research Interest

Cognitive/Systems Neuroscience
Systems and Circuits
Behavioral and Systems Neuroscience: Non-human Models

Some recent topics of interest include:

  • Studies of in vivo anatomy of the normal and abnormal human retina using optical coherence tomography (OCT).
  • Electrical activity of human photoreceptors: analysis of human visual receptor activity using the electroretinogram (ERG). This work includes the study of normal vision and the effects of retinal diseases.
  • Sites and mechanisms of retinal diseases: new techniques, including OCT, multifocal ERG, and multifocal visual evoked potentials (VEP) are employed to assess the sites and mechanisms of diseases of the retina and visual pathways.

Hood DC, Ramachandran R, Holopigian K, Lazow M, Birch DG, Greenstein VG. (2011) Method for deriving visual field boundaries from OCT scans of patients with retinitis pigmentosa. Biomedical Optics Express, 2, 1106–1114.

Hood DC, Raza AS, de Moraes CGV, Liebmann JM, Ritch R. (in press) Glaucomatous damage of the macula. Progress in Retinal and Eye Research. Available online as of 17 September, 2012.

Review Articles

Hood, D. C. (2000) Assessing retinal function with the multifocal ERG technique. Progress in Retinal and Eye Research, 19, 607-646.

Hood DC & Kardon, RH. (2007) A framework for comparing structural and functional measures of glaucomatous damage. Progress in Retinal and Eye Research, 26, 688-710.

Hood DC, Raza AS, de Moraes CGV, Liebmann JM, Ritch R. (2013) Glaucomatous damage of the macula. Progress in Retinal and Eye Research. 32, 1-21.