What can animal experiments tell us about human amblyopia?

Abstract

Laurence Garey plays something of devil's advocate in a discussion of the relevance of visual deprivation experiments to the understanding and treatment of defective vision in human children. He describes the basic anatomical and physiological effects of rearing experimental animals, especially primates, with visual deprivation, and compares these with human cases. There are clear similarities, but the underlying defects are different. Yet, workers in both laboratory and clinic stand to gain from each other's experience.