Visual system can retain considerable plasticity after extended blindness

Monday, January 27, 2014 - 13:00 in Health & Medicine

Deprivation of vision during critical periods of childhood development has long been thought to result in irreversible vision loss. Now, researchers have challenged that theory by studying a unique population of pediatric patients who were blind during these critical periods before removal of bilateral cataracts.

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