Blindness Temporarily Reverses Hearing Loss

Neurologists have discovered that by minimizing eyesight and causing temporary blindness for one week, hearing loss can be reversed. The brain is altered within the short time-frame and compensates for the hindered sense of sight.

Blindness Temporarily Reverses Hearing Loss Hey-Kyoung Lee is an assistant professor at John Hopkins University. She paired up with Dr. Patrick Kanold, a biologist at the University of Maryland, to conduct research on how hearing is effected by limiting sight. The results of the experiment, funded in part by the National Institute of Health, were published in the journal Neuron.

Mice were used to determine a brain connection linking blindness with improved hearing. Researchers simulated blindness in the mice by placing them in a darkened environment for a week. T...

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