The brain's ability to adapt and rewire itself throughout life continues to surprise neuroscientists.
on children with LCA have shown that synthetic retinoid treatments can help compensate for some vision loss when injected straight into the eye. But how these treatments impact adults with the condition is not as well understood.
To explore this idea, researchers administered a synthetic retinoid for seven days to adult rodents born with retinal degeneration. This suggests the central visual pathway that carries information from the eye to the visual cortex can be significantly restored by retinoid treatment, even in adult mice.says"Seeing involves more than intact and functioning retinae. It starts in the eye, which sends signals throughout the brain. It's in the central circuits of the brain where visual perception actually arises."
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