Seeing with the Brain, Research Briefs

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A groundbreaking artificial vision system that bypasses the optic nerve and instead, transmits image information to a special pair of eyeglasses via a camera and a wireless implant on the visual cortex of the brain, has advanced to the clinical trials stage this year. The National Institutes of Health awarded $2.5 million for the first year of the three-year project developed by a multi-institutional team led by Philip R. Troyk,executive director of the Pritzker Institute of Biomedical Science and Engineering.