Eye Degeneration And Brain Lesion After Stroke (IMAGE)
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The left image shows degeneration that typically occurs in the eye (lower right corner) after a patient has a stroke in the visual processing area of the brain. The area of degeneration corresponds to the location of blind areas of the patient's visual field. Carnegie Mellon and University of Rochester researchers found the eye is less likely to degenerate when the brain continues to respond to visual stimuli despite the patient's blindness from the stroke. The right image shows lesion in black and visual cortex activity to stimuli presented in blind areas of the patient's visual field in orange.
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Schneider et al.
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