Utah Artifical Vision Project -- Occipital Cortical Implants for Blindness

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Identifier 20110207_nanos_controversies_05
Title Utah Artifical Vision Project -- Occipital Cortical Implants for Blindness
Creator Judith Warner, MD
Affiliation John Moran Eye Center, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
Subject Artificial Vision; Utah Electrode Array; Occipital Cortex; Cortical Implants; Phosphene
Description The Utah Artificial Vision Project (UAVP) is a multidisciplinary effort to explore and implement the use of direct occipital lobe stimulation in order to provide useful visual information to blind humans. There are numerous advantages to the strategy of stimulation of the occipital lobe, but also numerous technical hurdles. Early results from primates and human support the validity of the concept.
Date 2011-02-07
Language eng
Format application/pdf
Type Text
Source 2011 North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society Annual Meeting
Relation is Part of NANOS 2011: Hot Topics (Controversies)
Collection Neuro-Ophthalmology Virtual Education Library: NANOS Annual Meeting Collection: https://novel.utah.edu/collection/nanos-annual-meeting-collection/
Publisher North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society
Holding Institution Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, University of Utah
Rights Management Copyright 2011. For further information regarding the rights to this collection, please visit: https://NOVEL.utah.edu/about/copyright
ARK ark:/87278/s65f1zb0
Setname ehsl_novel_nam
ID 181746
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s65f1zb0
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