BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:Myopia is a type of refractive error that blurs retinal image and in turn can change neural signals transferred from retina to visual cortex. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of induced myopia on occipital visual cortex activity by fMRI results.
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