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Rubin Jure

Director, Centro Privado de Neurología y Neuropsicología Infanto-Juvenil Wernicke

Rubin Jure is a child neurologist and director of the Centro Privado de Neurología y Neuropsicología Infanto-Juvenil Wernicke in Cordoba, Argentina.

November 2019
Child hesitating in front of a giant eye showing areas of the brain, facial recognition and other connections related to sight.

Seeing connections between autism and blindness

by  /  12 November 2019

Autism is unusually common among people with congenital blindness, in part because the ability to see drives much of brain development.

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