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Restoration of vision in blind individuals using bionic devices: a review with a focus on cortical visual prostheses

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Challenges facing developers of cortical visual prostheses are detail, in addition to briefly outlining the epidemiology of blindness, and the history of cortical electrical stimulation in the context of visual prosthetics.
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This article is published in Brain Research.The article was published on 2015-01-21 and is currently open access. It has received 178 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Retinal ganglion & Visual system.

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An insight into assistive technology for the visually impaired and blind people: state-of-the-art and future trends

TL;DR: An objective statistical survey across the various sub-disciplines in the field and applied information analysis and network-theory techniques to answer several key questions relevant to the field reveal that there has been a sustained growth in this field.
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Neural Substrate Expansion for the Restoration of Brain Function.

TL;DR: It is contended that fulfilling the potential of brain substrate expansion will require a significant shift from current methods that emphasize direct manipulations of the brain to the generation of more sophisticated neural tissues and neural-electric hybrids in vitro that are subsequently transplanted into the brain.
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Dynamic Stimulation of Visual Cortex Produces Form Vision in Sighted and Blind Humans.

TL;DR: Dynamic stimulation of visual cortex enabled accurate recognition of letter shapes predicted by the brain's spatial map of the visual world, demonstrating that a brain prosthetic can produce coherent percepts of visual forms.
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Development of neural interfaces and energy harvesters towards self-powered implantable systems for healthcare monitoring and rehabilitation purposes

TL;DR: The progress and current status of neural interfaces are reviewed, start from the well-established neuromodulation protocols and efforts to translational applications, then move on to milestones of neural interface development, and end with the review on considerations and requirements of active and inactive materials.
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Clinical applications of penetrating neural interfaces and Utah Electrode Array technologies.

TL;DR: The use of two of these devices, Utah electrode arrays and Utah slanted electrode arrays, are highlighted in two therapeutic interventions: recording volitional skeletal motor commands from the central nervous system and recording motor commands and evoking somatosensory percepts in the peripheral nervous system.
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Reach and grasp by people with tetraplegia using a neurally controlled robotic arm

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