Abstract #3776

Neuro-anatomical changes in the early blind, late blind during critical developmental time: Voxel Based Morphometry study

Ankeeta . Ankeeta¹, Senthil S Kumaran², Rohit Saxena³, and N R Jagannathan²

¹Neurology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India, ²NMR and MRI Facility, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India, ³Rajendra Prasad Centre of Opthalmology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

In the early blind individuals, the white matter plasticity during the critical developmental period may compensate for the impairment resulting from the de-afferentation of the visual information that may explain for the early blind subjects show fewer regions with white matter impairments relative to the late blind

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