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The Woman Who Makes The Blind See by Katier00(f): 11:59am On Nov 12, 2014
Neuroscientist Sheila Nirenberg has found a way to make the blind see again, and it all began with her idea to crack the brain’s visual code…
As you look at this page, your eyes are doing a remarkable thing.
A stream of light from the words and pictures is bouncing into the eyeball and falling onto photoreceptor cells on the retina. This visual information is passed on to output cells and then transmitted to the brain as a kind of code, where it is reconstructed to make up the letters in this sentence you are reading right now.
Degenerative eye diseases, however, can wreak havoc on this process, says neuroscientist Sheila Nirenberg of Weill Medical College at Cornell University. When they damage the retina, the image in front of you never gets further than the eyeball; the chain is broken.
That’s what makes the technology that Nirenberg has built rather remarkable. She has found a way to transmit a visual code directly to the brain, bypassing damaged cells in the eye. In other words, she can help the blind see again.In the video above, she explains how her technology works, the eureka moment that started it all, and the emotional impact on blind patients using it for the first time.
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Re: The Woman Who Makes The Blind See by arbitrage: 1:08am On Mar 05, 2016
Where's the video?
Re: The Woman Who Makes The Blind See by Flexherbal(m): 3:05am On Mar 05, 2016
You did not upload the video. Check again.

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