Vision Restored with Total Darkness (IMAGE)

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Vision Restored with Total Darkness

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Depriving normal visual experience in one eye early in life produces a reduction in visual acuity (amblyopia) for that eye (blue circles) while the acuity of the other eye is normal (red). The visual acuity of the amblyopic eye remains low compared to the fellow eye, but after immersion in complete darkness the amblyopic eye very quickly recovers to match the visual acuity attained by the normal eye.

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<I>Current Biology</I>, Duffy et al.

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