Short-term monocular patching boosts the patched eye's response in visual cortex.

CONCLUSIONS: We interpret this eye dominance plasticity in adult human visual cortex as homeostatic intrinsic plasticity regulated by an increase of contrast-gain in the patched eye.
PMID: 26410580 [PubMed - in process]

Source: Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience - January 25, 2016 Category: Neurology Tags: Restor Neurol Neurosci Source Type: research