Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellow at Yale University, Yale Eye Center, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
Yale J Biol Med. 2011 Dec;84(4):483-5.
Project Prakash is an organization that reverses congenital blindness in children and adolescents in rural India with the hypothesis that these children will be able to recover some of their vision even though their visual system did not develop normally. This hypothesis challenges the scientific dogma established by the Nobel-prize winning research of Hubel and Wiesel that the brain cannot adapt to visual input after being completely deprived of vision during the critical first few months and years of life. Dr. Pawan Sinha presented his work at the largest and most respected ophthalmological research meeting, the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO), in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on May 4, 2011.
普拉卡什项目是一个组织，它致力于逆转印度农村地区儿童和青少年的先天性失明，其假设是，这些孩子即使他们的视觉系统没有正常发育，也能够恢复部分视力。这一假设挑战了诺贝尔奖得主 Hubel 和 Wiesel 的开创性研究确立的科学教条，即大脑在生命的最初几个月和几年内完全失去视觉后，无法适应视觉输入。潘万·辛哈博士于 2011 年 5 月 4 日在佛罗里达州劳德代尔堡举行的最大、最受尊敬的眼科研究会议——视觉与眼科研究协会（ARVO）上展示了他的工作。
