Following cataract removal, some of the brain’s visual pathways seem to be more malleable than previously thought. MIT researchers have shown that children over 7 can learn visual tasks post cataract surgery, challenging the belief that the brain's visual learning period ends at a younger age. Th
New study discovers the changes in brain structures that underlie sight recovery in patients with congenital cataracts, a leading cause of treatable blindness in children and teens
MIT neuroscientists discovered anatomical changes that occur in the white matter of visual-processing areas of the brain, in children who have congenital cataracts surgically removed.
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