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Dr Bradley Greger on restoring vision to blind people by implanting a neural stimulator

Sep 25, 201745 minTranscript available on Metacast
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Dr Bradley Greger is an associate professor at Arizona State University where he is interested in helping the blind see. The blind person would have implants which go directly to the brain, similar to a Cochlear Implant, which would transmit what a camera saw. In this way vision could be restored, even it if is only 7 x 7 pixel vision.