About 30 million people around the world have grown legally blind due to retinal diseases. The EPI-RET project has sought for a technical solution for the past twelve years to help these patients.

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 ...

An editorial published in the New England Journal of Medicine 1 referred to the Photovoltaic Retina Implant Microarray (PRIMA ...

Retinitis pigmentosa and age-related macular degeneration are two significant causes of severe visual dysfunction. In both, the retinal photoreceptors degenerate, preventing successful conversion of ...

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 ...

SYLMAR, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (NASDAQ:EYES) ("Second Sight" or "the Company"), a developer, manufacturer and marketer of implantable visual prosthetics that are ...

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 ...

This release is also available in German. When the idea appeared several years ago, it sounded persuasive: How about implanting electrodes at the defective retina of blind subjects and connecting them ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Implanting intraocular lenses (IOLs) after cataract surgery in infants is neither beneficial nor detrimental to long-term visual outcomes, according to a study published in JAMA Ophthalmology. In this ...