Training the brain to see again: tapping the power of 'neuroplasticity,' doctors offer new hope to stroke patients.
Saturday Evening Post › Vol. 277 Nbr. 3, May 2005
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Training the brain to see again: tapping the power of 'neuroplasticity,' doctors offer new hope to stroke patients.
Settling his chin into the black plastic frame in front of the computer screen, Alexander Furlan, 63, stares at the green dot in the center. It takes all his willpower to keep his eyes glued to this "fixation point," resisting the urge to let them dart over to white dots that unexpectedly pop onto the screen. But when he sees, with his peripheral vision rather than his central vision, one of those sneaky white dots, he clicks the mouse, causing a tone to sound: Got one. At random intervals, the central green dot changes color, to test if his eyes are straying. When it does, he clicks the mouse and another tone sounds. Score.
Mr. Furlan is not playing some ascetic video game. Instead, neuro...See the full content of this document
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