Topic: Cortical Thickness

Visual restoration after decades of blindness is now becoming possible by means of retinal and cortical prostheses, as well as emerging stem cell and gene therapeutic approaches. After restoring visual perception, however, a key question remains. Are there optimal means and methods for retraining the visual cortex to process visual inputs, and for learning or relearning to “see”? Up to this point, it has been largely assumed that if the sensory loss is visual, then the rehabilitation focus should also be primarily visual. However, the other senses play a key role in visual rehabilitation due t

The human cortical ribbon varies during the lifespan, from childhood to senescence. To study the effects of genetic and environmental factors on these dynamics, one needs to measure specific phenotypes (cortical volume, surface area, thickness, new neuroimaging phenotypes such as intracortical myelination or multimodal ones based on their combination, or their asymmetries) that characterize the cerebral grey matter accurately