Brief Postnatal Blindness Triggers Long-Lasting Reorganization in the Brain (IMAGE)

University of Montreal

Brief Postnatal Blindness Triggers Long-Lasting Reorganization in the Brain

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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 at the University of Trento, McMaster University, and the University of Montreal revealed today in Current Biology.

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