“Neural wiring in the visual system is not dismantled by visual deprivation. Neural wiring in the visual system is merely deactivated and is capable of being rapidly restored.”
Krahe,et al.
Neuron, Vol.48,329-343, October 2005
Virginia University School of Medicine
“視覺剝奪，不會破壞大腦視覺中樞的神經通路，神經通路僅僅是暫時被抑制，能夠快速恢復。”
——凱荷等人
《神經科學》，卷48，329-343，2005年10月
弗吉尼亞大學醫學院，美國
“The period of visual development for some higher functions is so prolonged that the sensitive period never really ends.”
J.Anthony Movshon,PhD
New York University
“某些高級視覺功能發育時間很長，所以視覺發育的敏感期，在任何年齡都不會停止。”
——安東尼•摩恩博士
紐約大學，美國
“It is often stated that humans with amblyopia cannot be treated beyond a certain age; however, a review of the scientific literature suggests otherwise. There is no clear upper age limit for recover of visual acuity, and there are many studied of improvement in acuity of older people with amblyopia…New clinical and experimental studies in both animals and humans provide evidence for neural plasticity beyond the critical period. The results suggest that perceptual learning is effective in improving a range of visual performance measures and importantly the improvements may transfer to better visual acuity and stereopsis. These findings,along with the results of new clinical trials, suggest that it might be time to reconsider our notions about neural plasticity in amblyopia. ”
Dr.Dennis Levi’
Dean, Berkeley University College of Optometry, Berkeley, California
“通常認為，超過一定年齡，弱視就無法治癒，然而，一篇綜述研究的結論卻恰恰相反，視力恢復沒有年齡上限。許多文獻報道，大齡弱視患者視力仍然能夠提高……許多動物和人體試驗研究證明，關鍵期後，大腦神經可塑性依然存在，知覺學習可有效改善視覺功能，幫助提高視力和立體視。我們現在需要重新考慮，弱視大腦神經可塑性的概念。”
——丹尼斯•利維醫生，院長
眼視光醫學院，加州大學伯克利分校，美國
Author’s note: It is clear to the scientific community that neural plasticity is a reality and neurological changes in the brain can occur at any age. This must become absolutely clear to all ophthalmologists and optometrists so that they never again tell even one patient that nothing can be done to cure their amblyopia or strabismus.
作者評論：學術界已普遍接受，大腦神經可塑性終身存在，在任何年齡段，大腦神經都可以做出改變。現在，必須讓所有眼科醫生和眼視光醫生，都對此有所瞭解，這樣，他們不會再對患者說，斜弱視由於年齡限制而無法治療。
“The idea that the brain can change its own structure and function through thought and activity is , I believe, the most important alteration in our view of the brain since we first sketched out its basic anatomy and the workings of its basic component, the neuron.Like all revolutions, this one will have profound effects.”
Norman Doidge
The Brain That Changes Itself
“大腦可以通過思維活動，改變自身結構和功能，這個觀點，是我們在瞭解大腦基礎解剖，以及神經元基本工作後，對大腦認知最重要的轉變。就像所有革命性觀點一樣，這次認知轉變將產生深遠影響。”
——諾爾曼•道伊奇
《大腦會自我改變》
“The sensitive period never really ends, and there is a very extended period of plasticity for higher visual cortical areas in which many forms of adaptability and plasticity are evid
J.Anthony Movshon,PhD
,PhD
New York University, Sensitive Periods in Visual Deve
“敏感期不會停止，對於大腦視覺中樞來說，可塑期非常長。在這些區域中，多種形式的適應性和可塑性明顯可見。”
可塑性明顯可見。”
——安東尼•摩恩博士
《視覺發育敏感期》，紐約大學，美國
“By manipulating inhibitory transmission in the neocortex, amblypic effects of visual deprivation can be delayed or accelerated… and “alleviating neural inhibition in adulthood with drugs or training paradigms may unmask the full capacity for life
Takao K. Hensch,Ph
K. Hensch,PhD
,PhD
Harvard University, Unlocking Brakes on Plastictity
“通過控制大腦皮層的抑制性傳輸，可以延遲或加速，視覺剝奪引起的弱視作用……通過藥物或訓練，緩解成人神經抑制，可建立大腦終身學習的能力。”
——高雄•亨施博士
《打開神經可塑性的枷鎖》，哈佛大學，美國
（文章摘自: CROSSED & LAZY EYES MYTHS,MISCON
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