Children’s brains remap and retain visual perception after surgery for severe epilepsy

Written by Ebony Torrington (Future Science Group)

Researchers from York University’s Faculty of Health (Toronto, Canada) and Carnegie Mellon University (PA, USA) have recently found the brains of children with severe epilepsy can be compensated by rewiring regions of the visual cortex after surgery. This study provides strong evidence suggesting that the brain has some degree of plasticity. The research was funded by the National Eye Institute and has been published in the Journal of Neuroscience. "What we're seeing is remarkable," said Erez Freud, Faculty of Health and Centre for Vision Research (York University). "The most striking case in our findings was a 14-year-old girl who had...

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