Some research suggests that congenital blindness may help protect against schizophrenia by changing how the brain processes sensory information. Scientists have found a link between congenital ...
As a paper just published in Frontiers in Psychology points out, congenital and early blindness appears to protect against schizophrenia. As the authors note, “across all past papers, there has not ...
Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 24, 2009 – Born with a retinal disease that made him legally blind, and would eventually leave him totally sightless, the nine-year-old boy used to sit in the back of the ...