Developmental timing and critical windows for the treatment of psychiatric disorders

O Marín - Nature medicine, 2016 - nature.com
There is a growing understanding that pathological genetic variation and environmental
insults during sensitive periods in brain development have long-term consequences on …

How early experience shapes human development: The case of psychosocial deprivation

CA Nelson III, CH Zeanah, NA Fox - Neural plasticity, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Experience plays an essential role in building brain architecture after birth. The question we
address in this paper is what happens to brain and behavior when a young child is deprived …

Visual perceptual learning and models

B Dosher, ZL Lu - Annual review of vision science, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Visual perceptual learning through practice or training can significantly improve
performance on visual tasks. Originally seen as a manifestation of plasticity in the primary …

Restoring vision

B Roska, JA Sahel - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Restoring vision to the blind by retinal repair has been a dream of medicine for centuries,
and the first successful procedures have recently been performed. Although we are still far …

Assessment of visual function in blind mice and monkeys with subretinally implanted nanowire arrays as artificial photoreceptors

R Yang, P Zhao, L Wang, C Feng, C Peng… - Nature Biomedical …, 2024 - nature.com
Retinal prostheses could restore image-forming vision in conditions of photoreceptor
degeneration. However, contrast sensitivity and visual acuity are often insufficient. Here we …

Do blind people hear better?

CJ Sabourin, Y Merrikhi, SG Lomber - Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2022 - cell.com
For centuries, anecdotal evidence such as the perfect pitch of the blind piano tuner or blind
musician has supported the notion that individuals who have lost their sight early in life have …

Functional connectivity of visual cortex in the blind follows retinotopic organization principles

E Striem-Amit, S Ovadia-Caro, A Caramazza… - Brain, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Is visual input during critical periods of development crucial for the emergence of the
fundamental topographical map** of the visual cortex? And would this structure be …

[HTML][HTML] Advancing clinical trials for inherited retinal diseases: recommendations from the Second Monaciano Symposium

DA Thompson, A Iannaccone, RR Ali… - … vision science & …, 2020 - arvojournals.org
Major advances in the study of inherited retinal diseases (IRDs) have placed efforts to
develop treatments for these blinding conditions at the forefront of the emerging field of …

Learning to see again: biological constraints on cortical plasticity and the implications for sight restoration technologies

M Beyeler, A Rokem, GM Boynton… - Journal of neural …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The'bionic eye'—so long a dream of the future—is finally becoming a reality with retinal
prostheses available to patients in both the US and Europe. However, clinical experience …

Are critical periods reversible in the adult brain? Insights on cortical specializations based on sensory deprivation studies

B Heimler, A Amedi - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
We review here studies with visual and auditory deprived/recovery populations to argue for
the need of a redefinition of the crucial role of unisensory-specific experiences during critical …