"Pupil" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The aperture in the iris through which light passes.
| Descriptor ID |
D011680
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A09.371.060.450.780 A09.371.894.513.780
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1996 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1997 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2003 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2004 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2009 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2011 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2013 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2022 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2023 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2024 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2025 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Pupil" by people in Profiles.
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Eye metrics often reflect visual conscious awareness, conscious content, and neural processing in cerebral blindness. Commun Biol. 2025 Dec 01; 8(1):1724.
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Aperiodic spectral slope tracks the effects of brain state on saliency responses in the human auditory cortex. Sci Rep. 2024 12 28; 14(1):30751.
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Cross-species real-time detection of trends in pupil size fluctuation. Behav Res Methods. 2024 12 10; 57(1):9.
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Strategic stabilization of arousal boosts sustained attention. Curr Biol. 2024 Sep 23; 34(18):4114-4128.e6.
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Optical bench evaluation of the effect of pupil size in new generation monofocal intraocular lenses. BMC Ophthalmol. 2023 Mar 20; 23(1):112.
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State-dependent pupil dilation rapidly shifts visual feature selectivity. Nature. 2022 10; 610(7930):128-134.
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Effect of Pharmacological Pupil Dilation on Dark-Adapted Perimetric Sensitivity in Healthy Subjects Using an Octopus 900 Perimeter. Transl Vis Sci Technol. 2021 12 01; 10(14):18.
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Graded recruitment of pupil-linked neuromodulation by parametric stimulation of the vagus nerve. Nat Commun. 2021 03 09; 12(1):1539.
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Pupil-linked phasic arousal predicts a reduction of choice bias across species and decision domains. Elife. 2020 06 16; 9.
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Quantitative Pupillometry for Detection of Intracranial Pressure Changes During Head-Down Tilt. Aerosp Med Hum Perform. 2018 Aug 01; 89(8):717-723.