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CORTIVIS Approach for an Intracortical Visual Prostheses

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Cortical prostheses are a subgroup of visual neuroprostheses capable of evoking visual percepts in profoundly blind people through direct electrical stimulation of the occipital cortex. This approach may be the only treatment available for blindness caused by glaucoma, end-stage retinitis pigmentosa, optic atrophy, trauma to the retinas and/or optic nerves or by diseases of the central visual pathways such as brain injuries or stroke. However the selection of a specific person for a cortical implant is not straightforward and currently there are not strict standardized criteria for accepting or rejecting a candidate. We are now facing the challenge of creating such an intracortical visual neuroprosthesis designed to interface with the occipital visual cortex as a means through which a limited but useful visual sense could be restored to these blind patients.

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  1. Department of Neural Engineering, Miguel Hernández University, CIBER BBN, Elche, Alicante, Spain

    Eduardo Fernández MD, PhD

  2. Department of Bioengineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

    Richard A. Normann PhD

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Fernández, E., Normann, R.A. (2017). CORTIVIS Approach for an Intracortical Visual Prostheses. In: Gabel, V. (eds) Artificial Vision. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41876-6_15

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