Leivada Evelina
Cyprus Acquisition Team, University of Cyprus, 75 Kallipoleos, P.O. Box 20537, 1087 Nicosia, Cyprus.
Neurosci Lett. 2016 Mar 23;617:178-81. doi: 10.1016/j.neulet.2016.02.024. Epub 2016 Feb 17.
The absence of co-occurrence of schizophrenia with congenital/early blindness (CB) has led to the claim that CB confers protection against schizophrenia. It has recently been shown that the protective effects are particularly reinforced in cases of CB of cortical origin, since cases of CB of peripheral origin and schizophrenia in fact exist. The present work shows that the protection extends to psychosis more broadly and describes the brain basis of the protective mechanism and its relation to the language faculty and the language areas of the brain.
先天性/早期失明（CB）与精神分裂症不会同时出现，这使得人们声称CB能预防精神分裂症。最近有研究表明，皮质源性CB的保护作用尤为显著，因为外周源性CB与精神分裂症同时存在的病例确实存在。目前的研究表明，这种保护作用更广泛地适用于精神病，并描述了保护机制的脑基础及其与语言能力和大脑语言区域的关系。
