News

Brain 'Rewires' Itself To Improve Hearing, Memory and Cognition in the Blind

March 29, 2017

Dr. Bauer and Dr. Merabet are recognized for their work, published in PLOS One, that shows the structural, anatomical and functional effects of being born blind.

[Click here for full story]

Power Boost

March 24, 2017

Dr. Bauer explains her research on how the brain 'rewires' itself to enhance other senses in people who are born blind to the Harvard Medical School press.

[Click here for full story]

Brain 'Rewires' to Work Around Early Blindness

March 22, 2017

Dr. Bauer explains her researcon how the brain adapts to being born without sight.

[Click here for full text]

Wiring diagram of the human brain, also known as the connectome. Published with article on gizmodo.com

The Brains of Blind People Really Are Wired to Enhance Other Senses

March 22, 2017

Gizmodo.com interviews Dr. Bauer on her work on studying the structural, anatomical and functional whole-brain effects of being born blind.

[Click here for full story]

Virtual Reality For Better Vision

February 10, 2017

Fitness Insider announces the publication of a video article by Dr. Merabet on a virtual reality game that can help people who are blind better navigate public places.

[Click here for full article]

The Laboratory for Visual Neuroplasticity is Awarded the RPB/Lions Clubs Low Vision Research Award

June 27, 2016

Dr. Merabet is the recipient of the first RPB/Lions Clubs International Foundation, $300,000 Low Vision Research Award.

[Click here for full story]

Building Spatial Skills Through Video Game Play

January 27, 2016

Dr. Lotfi Merabet speaks on blindness and plasticity at the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired.

[Click here for link]

Neuroplasticity in blindness: what it tells us about the mechanisms of blindness

January 5, 2016

Dr. Merabet explains neuroplasticity in terms of blindness.

[Click here for full story]

Dr. Lotfi Merabet gives a talk during the NIH lecture series

September 15, 2015

Dr. Lotfi Merabet gives a talk during the 2015-2016 BSSR Lecture Series: "Looking Inside the Adaptive Brain of the Blind".

[Click here to watch the talk in-full]

Parents create 'visual bucket list' for daughter who's going blind - CNN

August 12, 2015

Dr. Lotfi Merabet, a professor of ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School, said with Lizzy's parents' support and "the support of the community, her life will be full and she will continue to thrive."

[Click here for full article]

Director: Lotfi B. Merabet, OD PhD MPH