Andrew Huberman· PhD
implanting electrodes on the retina stimulating and causing people who've been profoundly blind for decades to see visual sensation blobs and streaks of light in their visual world that that are reproducible
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implanting electrodes on the retina stimulating and causing people who've been profoundly blind for decades to see visual sensation blobs and streaks of light in their visual world that that are reproducible
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this electronic implant would would do the following it would capture the light using a camera which is relatively easy it would process the visual information in a manner similar to the way that the retina normally does as similar as possible and then it would electrically activate the retinal gangin cells by passing current and causing the gangin cells to fire spikes and send those spikes to the brain
the concept is that you may be able to bypass those early sections of the retina that capture the light and process the signals and instead build an electronic implant that connects up directly to the retinal ganglin cells