Thanks firemonkey. That’s interesting. Bizarre though.
Agreed. I wonder what the explanation is.
One of the hypotheses is that the areas used for vision are almost completely hijacked by other processes in congenital cortical blindness, particularly by language networks, and that schizophrenia is somehow related to the human language. Which would also explain why we don’t find schizophrenia in animals and why animal models of sz are so inaccurate.
I don’t remember the exact hypothesis about how language contributes so strongly to sz.
In congenital peripheral blindness there is still some input to the visual processing areas.
That’s very interesting
the way i interpreted this meant that people who are schizo usually dont develop blindness? correct?
i remember the first trip to the psych ward the pdoc said that schizophrenia is kinda like how the eyes are… when the lens in the eyes focus we can see but when the mind and the brain are out of focus we cant think… something like that dont quote me haha. but yea that made a lot of sense to me. that when the mind (the software) cant work with the brain ( the hardware) it causes a thought disorder or brain disease etc etc