Brain reorganises to adjust for loss of vision
Thursday, November 20, 2008 - 14:42
in Health & Medicine
A new study from Georgia Tech shows that when patients with macular degeneration focus on using another part of their retina to compensate for their loss of central vision, their brain seems to compensate by reorganising its neural connections. Age - related macular degeneration is the leading cause of blindness in the elderly. The study appears in the December edition of the journal Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience...
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