Project Prakash: Challenging the Critical Period

摘要

Project Prakash is an organization that reverses congenital blindness in children and adolescents in rural India with the hypothesis that these children will be able to recover some of their vision even though their visual system did not develop normally. This hypothesis challenges the scientific dogma established by the Nobel-prize winning research of Hubel and Wiesel that the brain cannot adapt to visual input after being completely deprived of vision during the critical first few months and years of life. Dr. Pawan Sinha presented his work at the largest and most respected ophthalmological research meeting, the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO), in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on May 4, 2011.