Retinal Origins of Aberrant Salience in Schizophrenia: The Perceptual Theory
Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science June 4, 2026 Petr Adámek, Veronika Rudolfová, Kristýna Malenínská et al.
Schizophrenia research has traditionally viewed visual processing abnormalities as downstream consequences of cortical dysfunction. However, the epidemiological observation that congenital cortical blindness appears to confer protection against schizophrenia, while peripheral blindness, regardless of its developmental timing, does not, indicates that visual input itself may play a more...