Early design considerations for a thalamic visual prosthesis to treat blindness resulting from glaucoma
Abstract
Development of visual prostheses for human cortex or retina has gained interest in recent years. However, a visual prosthesis for the thalamic region targeting the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) would have many advantages. This paper proposes such a deep brain visual prosthesis that can harness the capacity of the residual central visual neurons following loss of retinal ganglion cells in glaucoma. We believe that such a prosthesis can restore visual percepts, substituting an engineered prosthetic for the image capture and early visual processing properties of the LGN neurons that we propose to drive artificially.
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So far, there have been very few preclinical studies in animals conducted to test the stimulation efficacy of LGN prostheses.
“So far, there have been very few preclinical studies in animals conducted to test the stimulation efficacy [81,83,84].”
From Advances in visual prostheses: engineering and biological challenges (2022) · cites this paper as [84]
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- Authors
- Tangutooru, S. M., Yoon, W. J., & Troy, J. B.
- Affiliations
- Qatar University (QA)
- Northwestern University (US)
- Venue
- 2nd Middle East Conference on Biomedical Engineering
- Publisher
- IEEE
- Published
- 2014-02
- Pages
- 249-252
- OpenAlex
- W1987534069
- Cited by
- 7
- References
- 10
- Citations by year
- 2022: 1 · 2021: 2 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 1
- FWCI
- 4.76
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Middle East Conference on Biomedical Engineering (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neuroscience and Neural Engineering
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Tactile and Sensory Interactions
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- Keywords
- glaucoma, lateral geniculate nucleus, deep brain stimulation, blindness, retinal ganglion cell death, early visual processing, neuroprosthetics
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