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Brief postnatal blindness triggers long-lasting reorganization in the brain

August 20, 2015 by

A brief period of postnatal visual deprivation, when early in life, drives a rewiring of the brain areas involved in visual processing, even if the visual restoration is completed well before the baby reaches one year of age, researchers reveal.

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