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Occipital Dormoneurosis is a rare medical issue wherein the nerve pathways connecting the receptor point in the rear occipital lobe of the brain to the area of sensory translation further up in the same lobe enter a state of "dormancy", meaning they cease to transfer the electrochemical message translating the image into something that the brain can understand. Victims of Occipital Dormoneurosis, therefore, complain of monocular or possibly even binocular blindness that can come about instantaneously or gradually but most often imposes itself upon the patient during sleep.
Most effective treatment of this condition is through forced rebuilding of the nervous pathway. This can be done in a number of ways. For example, should the patient display an occasion of binocular blindness, he should still express a receptivity to light. Treatment, therefore, should begin by displaying different intensities of light to the patient's declared dominant eye. The brain, clinging to its recognition of light-based stimuli, will build a new pathway between the two ends of transmission, thereby restoring sight to that same eye. Herein, optimum treatment is identical to the same in cases of monocular blindness: the active eye should be covered such that no light is permitted to stimulate its activity. This will have the same effect on the blinded eye as did the light shining in the previous example, namely, that the eye will be forced into activity based upon accustomed natural stimuli to influence the brain to create a new neural pathway from reception point to translation point within the occipital lobe, as is the case in simple learning.
Though little is known about the disease, the main demographic of afflicted individuals seems to be that of Irish males between the ages of 16 and 28, as they comprise well over half of documented cases. The following quarter is, per happenstance, Irish females of the same age group. Regardless of this demographic, ALL documented cases have afflicted individuals of northern European descent (particularly out of the United Kingdom).
The main supposed causes of Occipital Dormoneurosis include but are in no way defined by or limited to: stress, neurovirus, head trauma, drug or alcohol abuse, and stroke.
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