Schizophrenia and cortical blindness: Protective effects and implications for language
The repeatedly noted absence of case-reports of individuals with schizophrenia and congenital/early developed blindness has led several authors to argue that the latter can confer protective effects against the former. In this work, we present a number of relevant case-reports from different syndrom...
Main Authors: | Evelina eLeivada, Cedric eBoeckx |
---|---|
Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Frontiers Media S.A.
2014-11-01
|
Series: | Frontiers in Human Neuroscience |
Subjects: | |
Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00940/full |
Similar Items
-
Globularity and language-readiness: Generating new predictions by expanding the set of genes of interest
by: Cedric eBoeckx, et al.
Published: (2014-11-01) -
Cortico-thalamic development and disease: From cells, to circuits, to schizophrenia
by: Marilyn M. Angulo Salavarria, et al.
Published: (2023-03-01) -
Thalamic shape abnormalities in antipsychotic naïve schizophrenia
by: Vijay Danivas, et al.
Published: (2013-01-01) -
A Functional Neuroimaging Meta-Analysis of Self-Related Processing in Schizophrenia
by: Stéphane Potvin, et al.
Published: (2019-09-01) -
A simpler primate brain: the visual system of the marmoset monkey
by: Samuel Gavan Solomon, et al.
Published: (2014-08-01)