New insights on macular degeneration
Tuesday, March 3, 2009 - 18:28
in Psychology & Sociology
A new MIT study sheds light on how the brain's visual cortex can re-map itself in response to visual deprivation caused by macular degeneration, the most common form of adult blindness.
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