{"id":3202,"date":"2021-11-10T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/?p=3202"},"modified":"2021-10-28T09:21:42","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T09:21:42","slug":"a-blind-woman-regains-some-vision-using-brain-implants-in-a-landmark-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/a-blind-woman-regains-some-vision-using-brain-implants-in-a-landmark-first\/","title":{"rendered":"A Blind Woman Regains Some Vision Using Brain Implants In a Landmark First"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A 42-year-old woman named Bernardeta G\u00f3mez, from Elche, Spain, was diagnosed with toxic optic neuropathy<\/em>, a condition that slowly ruined the optic nerves<\/em> connecting the eye to the brain in as little as two days. The rapid deterioration of her eyesight forced her to stop her teaching profession in the sciences, and changed her life ever since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, things are looking quite bright for Berna\u2019s future, so to speak: a newly-developed brain implant allowed her to recognize two-dimensional shapes and some characters\u2014a landmark first for the research field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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G\u00f3mez, 42, was pictured here wearing glasses equipped with a small video camera. The entire setup is part of the brain implant setup, called the Moran|Cortivis Prosthesis. (University of Utah, 2021) <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The study comes as part of the latest developments in the search for aiding the visually-impaired, and follows the trail led by earlier explorations into the effort; one such study was the news piece from earlier this year, which saw similar results for a patient diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa<\/em>, but was aided with the help of gene therapy and genes from algae<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effort was a collaboration between the University of Utah\u2019s John A. Moran Eye Center and the Miguel Hern\u00e1ndez University from Spain, with the new implant referred to as a \u201cprosthesis hardwired into [the patient\u2019s] brain,\u201d according to the University of Utah\u2019s official Twitter account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Brain implant enables blind woman to see simple shapes.

A team of scientists from @MoranEyeCenter<\/a> and Spain\u2019s Miguel Hernandez University successfully created a form of artificial vision for a blind woman using a prosthesis hardwired into her brain.

? https:\/\/t.co\/wIflDbYDLP<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/p8nUfvHQvL<\/a><\/p>— University of Utah (@UUtah) October 27, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote>