{"id":147771,"date":"2022-10-08T07:22:38","date_gmt":"2022-10-08T12:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/the-adult-brain-can-recover-lost-vision"},"modified":"2022-10-08T07:22:38","modified_gmt":"2022-10-08T12:22:38","slug":"the-adult-brain-can-recover-lost-vision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/the-adult-brain-can-recover-lost-vision","title":{"rendered":"The Adult Brain Can Recover Lost Vision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-adult-brain-can-recover-lost-vision.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Summary: Administering a chemical compound called synthetic retinoids to the retina helped restore brain networks associated with vision and prompted the growth of two times more neurons, effectively restoring vision in adult mouse models of the genetic visual disorder LCA.<\/p>\n<p>Source: UC Irvine.<\/p>\n<p>A discovery about how some visually impaired adults could start to see offers a new vision of the brain\u2019s possibilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Administering a chemical compound called synthetic retinoids to the retina helped restore brain networks associated with vision and prompted the growth of two times more neurons, effectively restoring vision in adult mouse models of the genetic visual disorder LCA. Source: UC Irvine. A discovery about how some visually impaired adults could start to see [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-genetics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}