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 ...

Editor's Note: This article is based on interviews conducted in 2020 and first appeared in Moran's 2020 Focus annual report. ELCHE, Spain—At the age of 58, Berna Gomez has lived the past 16 years of ...

CHICAGO—February 16, 2022—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 ...

Three decades ago, University of Utah bioengineer Richard A. Normann, PhD, had a radical new idea he hoped might create artificial sight for people who had lost their vision due to disease. If the ...

SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH—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 Hernández University successfully created ...

A former science teacher who's been blind for 16 years became able to see letters, discern objects' edges — and even play a Maggie Simpson video game — thanks to a visual prosthesis that includes a ...

A new study provides a "guidebook" for brain implants, proving that flexible polyimide materials significantly reduce brain ...

Researchers have identified a new way of mapping ‘phosphenes’ – the visual perception of the bright flashes we see when no light is entering the eye – to improve the outcome of surgery for patients ...

In a recent publication appearing in Advanced Science, researchers at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience challenge ...