Dr. Alvaro Pascual-Leone,
director of the Center
for Noninvasive Brain
Stimulation at the Beth
Israel Deaconess Hospital.
Pascual-Leone, who has
been studying the brain
for 30 years, is developing
innovative therapies based
on the brain's ability to
adapt. Last week, in a
blindfold study at the
hospital, a sighted subject
is blindfolded and then
taught nonvisual tasks,
like reading Braille. In the
study, researchers began
noticing activity in the
visual brain after just two
days of being blindfolded.
(Globe Staff Photos / Suzanne Kreiter)
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