The PRIMA system is a subretinal implant designed to restore central vision in GA patients by replacing failed photoreceptors ...

The Intracortical Visual Prosthesis (ICVP), an implant that bypasses the retina and optic nerves to connect directly to the brain's visual cortex, has been successfully surgically implanted in the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . SAN FRANCISCO — Blind patients with no or bare light perception implanted with a visual cortical prosthesis have ...

Berna Gómez of Elche, Spain, wears eyeglasses equipped with a miniature video camera. Gómez spent six months working with researchers to test an experimental visual prosthesis which used an electrode ...

Neuralink's Blindsight implant has received FDA breakthrough status, aiming to restore sight by stimulating the visual cortex ...

This release is available in German. For twelve years, experts from different disciplines in the fields of microelectronics, neurophysics, information engineering, computer science, materials science ...

This consortium is working on a prosthesis that focuses on the visual cerebral cortex. Maureen van der Grinten emphasizes: "At the moment there is a discrepancy between the amount of electrodes we can ...

Second Sight, the California-based developer of visual prosthetics and retinal implants, will soon begin a feasibility clinical study to assess its Orion cortical visual prosthesis system in human ...

Side-by-side images show a 45,000-pixel rendering of a cat image at left, and a simulation representing an image rendered by 45,000 electrodes in a brain implant at right. (Credit: Ione Fine / ...

Nancy Hairston once used her 3D-animation, digital-sculpting and computer-aided-design skills to help Mattel make Bratz Dolls ...

Newly published research details how a team of scientists from the John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah and Spain’s Miguel Hernandez University successfully created a form of artificial ...