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    How Utter Darkness Could Heal Lazy Eye

    by Eliza Strickland Sep 01, 2015 4 minutes

    The email from a professor offered an unusual spring break adventure: Come spend five days in complete darkness. To Morgan Williams, then a sophomore at Swarthmore College and a psychology major, it sounded like a great way to spend his vacation week. “I’m not really one for going to the beach,” he says.

    For those five days in 2012, Williams and neuroscientist Benjamin Backus lived in a large room that had been carefully outfitted to ensure that not a ray, not a gleam, not a single photon of light would reach their eyes.

    Dark room: Could 5 days in the dark fix lazy eyes?InnervisionAr

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