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fromBig Think
1 month agoThe brain after blindness: How newly-sighted people build a visual world
If we told them to look at the face, they could usually manage it. But they were mostly looking at the hands. The Prakash children eventually learn to look at faces when spoken to - usually a few months after their surgeries. Their experiences reveal that seeing doesn't come naturally the moment a person is cured of blindness. Newly-sighted people must learn to see.
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fromenglish.elpais.com
2 months agoBrain implant restores vision to a man blinded by an optic nerve injury
A 4x4 mm microneedle implant in the visual cortex restored partial vision in a NAION patient, enabling light perception, movement detection, object identification, and reading large characters.
fromSFGATE
6 months agoThese patients got their vision back, thanks to new Stanford tech
With new wireless chips implanted behind their eyes and high-tech glasses, around 30 people with advanced age-related macular degeneration - a common eye disease - have regained their ability to read again. The device is the first of its kind to bring back functional sight, albeit blurry and only black and white, to patients with this type of incurable vision loss.
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