The Connection Between Areas in the Brain of Blind Patients
Blindness, Brain Mapping, Healthy
About this trial
This is an observational trial for Blindness focused on measuring Plasticity, Magnetic Stimulation, PET, Blind, Braille, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
Eligibility Criteria
INCLUSION CRITERIA: Subjects with late blindness. Subjects with early blindness. Sighted volunteers. Age between 18 and 65 years. EXCLUSION CRITERIA: Subjects with personal or family history of seizures or other neurological or demyelinating disorders. Pregnant women tested after urine pregnancy test. Subjects with metal in the cranium except mouth. Subjects with intracardiac lines and implanted medication pumps. Subjects with increased intracranial pressure as evaluated by clinical means. Subjects with cardiac pacemakers. Intake or neuroleptics. Subjects with blindness secondary to degenerative CNS diseases.
Sites / Locations
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)