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Blindsight is being developed to enable individuals with total visual impairment due to damage to the optic nerve but with intact visual cortex to see, this is made possible by bypassing the optic nerve and directly stimulating the visual cortex to create a visual perception.
Neuralink tests its devices by surgically implanting them in the brains of live monkeys, pigs, and other animals. [56] This has been criticized by groups such as PETA. [57] In August 2020, Neuralink conducted a live demo in which the brain activity of a pig, Gertrude, was displayed in real time.
Neuralink said that the latest participant in its first ever human study of the technology was able to perform new tasks using their thoughts, such as designing 3D objects using computer-aided ...
Earlier this year, Neuralink successfully implanted the device in the second patient, who has been using it to play video games and learn how to design 3D objects. (Reporting by Bhanvi Satija in ...
Neuralink released its video on Musk’s X platform about two months after Musk announced that the company had implanted a device in a human for the first time.
A 2021 review investigated suggested therapies for CVS and found little supporting evidence for the following: switching to bi- or multi-focal glasses to reduce eye strain, or using glasses that block blue light. The same review reported "low-certainty" in omega-3 supplements as a method to combat CVS. [10]
In 2016, Musk launched Neuralink with help from seven scientists and one engineer. Only two remain of the founding group—Musk and engineer DJ Seo. The goal of Neuralink is to develop brain ...
The Bates method is an ineffective and potentially dangerous alternative therapy aimed at improving eyesight.Eye-care physician William Horatio Bates (1860–1931) held the erroneous belief that the extraocular muscles caused changes in focus and that "mental strain" caused abnormal action of these muscles; hence he believed that relieving such "strain" would cure defective vision.