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If there was a way to have a person born blind have an "eye" transplant to see, would their brains be able to process images?

If, in some odd years there was a tried and true way of  either connecting tissues properly or taking an organ donors eyes and attacting everything properly and performing that surgery on someone who has already matured ( like say a 25 year old) person who was born blind, would their brains be able to process the images they see or would that be too much for them and drive them insane or severely depressed? or would their brains be able to adapt? 

I know that there would be a probable blur period for them. Taking that into account, how would that go over?
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>would their brains be able to process the images they see or would that be too much for them and drive them insane or severely depressed?

I can't speak for the exact scenario you mentioned, but Oliver Sacks wrote about a similar scenario in his book, An Anthropologist on Mars (Chapter 4, *To See and Not See*). The subject was a 50 year old gentleman who developed severe cataracts at six years old, and was effectively blind for most of his life. He received cataracts surgery at 50, and his vision was more-or-less restored (it wasn't 20-20, but it was apparently decent).

In doing so, however, he started experiencing problems. When he first opened his eyes after surgery, the world was a mess of colors to him. He couldn't recognize any shapes, he didn't know what objects he was looking at. He started making connections ("that tan bluer from where the voice is coming must be a face"), but it was a learning process, and he had difficult taking objects as a whole. He'd see parts, and the parts would run together. He had difficulty understanding perspective; he had difficult recognizing objects seen at new angles; he had difficulty putting letters together to form words; he had difficulty corresponding colors to their names. He could eventually do these things pretty passably, but it was never natural, never comfortable.

He fell into a depression and other illness; his work as a masseur became foreign to him after seeing his clients for the first time; he still only really "understood" an object if he closed his eyes and felt it with his hands. Sight had virtually no meaning to him, especially in visually cluttered spaces.

Eventually, he lost his eyesight again for reasons not fully known (though it was theorized that seeing light for the first time in half a century caused excessive damage to his eyes), and he was much happier with his blindness. It was all he had known for most of his life.

It's an interesting read.