"Running Cures Blindness In Mice" via IFLscience
TL;DR - running whilst looking at stuff promotes activity in the visual cortex (the bit of the brain which organises sight).
Basically, if animals have limited sight in one eye from birth (in the case of these mice they had their one eye covered up) then the corresponding part of the brain has less neural activity.
TL;DR - running whilst looking at stuff promotes activity in the visual cortex (the bit of the brain which organises sight).
Basically, if animals have limited sight in one eye from birth (in the case of these mice they had their one eye covered up) then the corresponding part of the brain has less neural activity.
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