http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Common wisdom has it that if the visual cortex in the brain is deprived of visual information in early infanthood, it may never develop properly its functional specialization, making sight restoration later in life almost impossible. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-mind-eye-scientists.html Neuroscience Wed, 07 Nov 2012 12:00:07 EST news271506734 A method developed at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for training blind persons to "see" through the use of a sensory substitution device (SSD) has enabled those using the system to actually "read" an eye chart with letter sizes smaller than those used in determining the international standard for blindness. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-shown.html Medical research Wed, 16 May 2012 11:14:15 EST news256385632