Retinal implants that can translate sensory input into neural activation in the vision-impaired have become an increasingly popular way to fight loss of sight, in particular that caused by macular ...

Sadly, for a group reliant on retinal implants from company Second Sight, the company has since stopped producing and supporting the devices that give them a crude form of bionic sight.

Pixium Vision, a French company, has received the approval to begin in-human trials of a miniature wireless sub-retinal implant. Named PRIMA, the device may help those with advanced dry age ...

The world’s first implant of a bionic eye has been carried out by a University of Manchester ... These are transmitted wirelessly to electrodes on the retina surface where they stimulate the remaining ...

At the Oxford Eye Hospital doctors have selected 6 patients to receive the most advanced kind of retinal implant – a tiny electronic chip that is inserted into the eye to replace the damaged ...

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The specialist performed an electroretinogram (ERG), a procedure in which a tiny electronic sensor placed on the eye measures the retina ... biomedical, or “bionic,” implants, have also ...

Essential tremor is one of the most common movement disorders, characterized by involuntary, rhythmic shaking movements, typically in hand, but sometimes the head, voice and legs. It often begins ...