New technique enables patient with 'word blindness' to read again

Thursday, January 2, 2014 - 16:00 in Health & Medicine

A novel technique has enabled a patient with "word blindness" to read again. Word blindness is a rare neurological condition. (The medical term is "alexia without agraphia.") Although a patient can write and understand the spoken word, the patient is unable to read.

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