3 Likes
This is very interesting, I’ve been reading about this now and then, but it has always been a mere hypothesis.
Very interesting!
Early blindness leads to clear enhancements in other areas of brain functioning – in sound perception, auditory attention, memory, language and the construction of subjective experience – all of which are often found not to be working well in people with schizophrenia, the researchers note. “It appears that early compensatory developmental neuroplasticity … creates advantages to blind people in the very functions that are impaired in schizophrenia,” they write.
They may develop brain training to enhance the relevant sensory areas. Cool.
1 Like