A list of inspiring and educational videos about visual impairment and neuroplasticity featuring neuroscientists and other experts such as Lotfi Merabet, David Eagleman and Norman Doidge. For more education and resources, visit our Resources page.
1. Blindness is Just Another Way of Seeing by Lotfi Merabet
Blindness has nothing to do with living in the dark. Behind eyes that don’t see is a brain that does see. In fact, blind people use the same visual centers of the brain that sighted people do, and can teach us more about the brain than we think, says Lotfi Merabet.
2. Can We Create New Senses For Humans? by David Eagleman
As humans, we can perceive less than a ten-trillionth of all light waves. “Our experience of reality,” says neuroscientist David Eagleman, “is constrained by our biology.” He wants to change that. His research into our brain processes has led him to create new interfaces to take in previously unseen information about the world around us.
3. The Nature of Things | The Brain’s Way of Healing with Dr. Norman Doidge
The brain can not only change itself, but it can also heal itself in ways we never thought were possible. Dr. Norman Doidge looks at how energy awaken the brain’s own capacity to heal.
4. Dr. Norman Doidge on TVO About The Brain That Changes Itself
The brain is not, as was thought, like a machine, or “hardwired” like a computer. Neuroplasticity not only gives hope to those with mental limitations, or what was thought to be incurable brain damage, but expands our understanding of the healthy brain and the resilience of human nature. Norman Doidge, MD, a psychiatrist and researcher, set out to investigate neuroplasticity and met both the brilliant scientists championing it and the people whose lives they’ve transformed.
5. Harnessing the Power of Brain Plasticity by Michael Merzenich
In this presentation Dr. Merzenich demonstrates to the audience that the brain function and wiring in sensitive to neural activity and any person at any age can rewire their brain.
6. CVI: New Face of Blindness by Perkins School for the Blind
Cortical Visual Impairment (CVI) is the new leading cause of blindness for children born in the United States. A video featuring inspiring families and children who have CVI.
Cindy has a deep interest in Cortical Visual Impairment (CVI) and is currently studying Early Childhood Education. She focuses most of her time on her energetic daughter: playing, cuddling and helping to make her world visually accessible. Cindy holds a degree in Marketing and has worked in the not-for-profit sector for many years.