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 ...

A tiny wireless chip placed at the back of the eye is giving people with severe vision loss something they had been told they ...

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 ...

Professor of Neurosurgery and Radiation Oncology and affiliated faculty in Bioengineering and Neuroscience, UCLA Medical Center & UCLA Brain Research Institute Stimulation of human visual cortex is ...

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 ...

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 ...

The study found significant intra-group CMT reductions in the DEX-I group, with a higher percentage reduction than the ...

In collaboration with their colleagues at the Donders Institute, researchers at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience have developed a simulator that enables artificial visual observations for ...

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 ...