Talk:Retinohypothalamic tract

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I am an undergraduate psychology student at Nebraska Wesleyan University and will be working with my instructor Michele Petracca and the APS Wikipedia Initiative to improve this article this semester. Any suggestions or input along the way would be greatly appreciated. Cbruha11 (talk) 05:03, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

Here are some articles and websites I am considering to use to edit and enhance this article:

1. Hannibal (2002) http://www.ifc.unam.mx/curso_ritmos/capitulo12/Hannibal021.pdf

2. Days (2004) http://content.lib.utah.edu/utils/getfile/collection/ehsl-aas/id/41/filename/42.pdf

3. Pérez-Rico, C., de la Villa, P., Arribas-Gómez, I., & Blanco, R. (2010). Evaluation of functional integrity of the retinohypothalamic tract in advanced glaucoma using multifocal electroretinography and light-induced melatonin suppression. Experimental Eye Research, 91(5), 578-583. doi:10.1016/j.exer.2010.07.012

4. Hannibal, J., Møller, Morten, Ottersen, O.P., & Fahrenkrug, Jan. (2000). PACAP and glutamate are co-stored in the retinohypothalamic tract. John/Wiley & Sons, Inc. John/Wiley & Sons Ltd.

5. Irwin, R. P., & Allen, C. N. (2007). Calcium response to retinohypothalamic tract synaptic transmission in suprachiasmatic nucleus neurons. The Journal Of Neuroscience, 27(43), 11748-11757. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1840-07.2007 Cbruha11 (talk) 05:48, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

Good; it certainly needs expansion. As a person with a circadian rhythm disorder (CRD), I hope this means that all psych students now are learning about CRDs! All too many of us get sent to psychologists (and doctors) who've never heard of CRDs.

Re: RHT. There are things I wonder about. Physically, how far do the light signals to the SCN follow the optic nerve, before they branch off? (An illustration would be appreciated.) People with no (visual) light perception sometimes do entrain their circadian rhythms through light because the ipRGCs and the RHT are in order; how often does this occur? (I presume that would mean that the optic nerve is in order at least to the point where the RHT branches off and is non-functional somewhere beyond that. This may be too simplistic...?) I'll probably be back with more questions.

I presume you have read (will read) Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Medicine-related articles: WP:MEDMOS.

Do you know about WP:DYK? In short, if you've expanded an article fivefold within the past five days, you may nominate it for a mention on the Main Page. (If interested in DYK, this obviously means that your expanded article will need to be a pretty complete draft before you enter it in article space. You can draft it in your own "sandbox" & see how it's going to look.)

Good luck. Hope you get a taste for editing here and decide to stay on. --Hordaland (talk) 17:35, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

Image

The influence of light and darkness on circadian rhythms and related physiology and behavior through the SCN in humans

I think this article would do very well with an image. The best I found was here [1], which may be possible to license if we contact the author. Otherwise the image from the SCN article is the best. I added it here, and it can be added to the article as seen fit. CFCF (talk · contribs · email) 21:35, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

Chantel, Your article has good information however, I think that adding a photo would improve your article even more. Rremus10 (talk) 03:29, 21 April 2014 (UTC)

How about this:

The influence of light and darkness on circadian rhythms and related physiology and behavior in humans

-- CFCF (talk · contribs · email) 14:10, 24 April 2014 (UTC)

The main image looks nice, but I would prefer it to have a white background as opposed to the current black background. Somerandomuser (talk) 19:35, 25 May 2017 (UTC)

Review

Review: I like the way your article was broken up with multiple headlines, I think it makes the article much easier to read. However, I also agree with the previous comments in saying your information could benefit from a visual aid. The other advice I may offer is to incorporate any cases you had read about involving human examples. Perhaps what are the effects if a human's pacemaker that regulates circadian rhythms becomes out of sync or any type of case study is fun to read about. Otherwise, I think it looks great! SydneyFocht (talk) 06:02, 23 April 2014 (UTC)

There was an excellent (IMO) image here not long ago, but it had to be removed for copyright reasons. You can find it here, scroll down to Fig. 48. If one of you students could draw one somewhat similar and upload it to Commons and use it in this article, that would be super. (All the abbreviations in that drawing aren't identified in its caption. They should be.)

Otherwise, we have several articles about the circadian rhythm disorders, but a tie-in to the RHT doesn't sound all that logical to me. --Hordaland (talk) 09:14, 23 April 2014 (UTC)

sooo hard to read — Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.227.227.174 (talk) 10:38, 27 May 2014 (UTC)