Can Living In Total Darkness For 5 Days "Reset" the Visual System?

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday September 2, 2015 @07:41AM from the do-over dept.

the_newsbeagle writes: That's what one neuroscientist is aiming to find out. He wants to put patients with a type of amblyopia, the vision problem commonly called lazy eye, into the dark for 5 days. His hypothesis: When they emerge, their brains' visual cortices will be temporarily "plastic" and changeable, and may begin to process the visual signals from their bad eyes correctly. Before he could do this study, though, he had to do a test run to figure out logistics. So he himself lived in a pitch black room for 5 days. One finding: Eating ravioli in the dark is hard.

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Wait for the results. by Seor+Jojoba · 2015-09-02 07:52 · Score: 5, Insightful

Why is it a story that someone has a hypothesis? Do the tests, publish your findings.
Overkill by nospam007 · 2015-09-02 08:00 · Score: 4, Insightful

Why not just glue them a mask on their face?
Way cheaper.