Attention network plays key role in restoring vision after brain damage

(Institute for Medical Psychology, Otto-v.-Guericke University Magdeburg) About one-third of patients who have suffered a stroke end up with low vision, losing up to half of their visual field. This partial blindness was long considered irreversible, but recent studies have shown that vision training after optic nerve and brain damage can help restore or improve vision. A new study published in the journal Clinical Neurophysiology reports on key mechanisms of vision restoration: attention.
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