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In the last few years, stroke ranked as the second most common cause of death and is the third most significant condition affecting disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) worldwide. Being the most prevalent and quality of life impacting post-stroke symptom ...
EPFL2024Fabrication and validation of an intraneural interface tailored for optic nerve stimulation
Technological progress in materials science and microengineering along with new discoveries in neuroscience have contributed to restore lost or impaired sensory functions by closely interfacing with the nervous system. Electronic devices have begun to be i ...
EPFL2022Vision-based Flocking in Aerial Robot Swarms
Aerial robot swarms have the potential to perform time-critical and dangerous tasks such as disaster response without compromising human safety. However, their reliance on external infrastructure such as global positioning for localization and wireless net ...
EPFL2022Photovoltaic stimulation of retinal microcircuit for vision restoration
Sight restoration through retinal prostheses was still a mere dream a century ago. Current challenges are even greater: providing a quantitatively and qualitatively useful artificial vision to late blind patients. Existing approaches all face engineering a ...
EPFL2021Virtual reality simulation of epiretinal stimulation highlights the relevance of the visual angle in prosthetic vision
Diego Ghezzi, Enrico Migliorini, Jacob Thomas Thorn
Objective. Retinal prostheses hold the potential to restore artificial vision in blind patients suffering from outer retinal dystrophies. The optimal number, density and coverage of the electrodes that a retinal prosthesis should have to provide adequate a ...
2020In vivo evaluation of gene editing and prosthetic strategies to restore vision in small and large animal models of retinal degeneration
Inherited retinal diseases (IRDs) form a group of diverse disorders that lead to the degeneration of the light-sensing cells of the retina: the photoreceptors. IRDs are among the leading causes of blindness in working-age adults living in industrialized co ...
EPFL2020Perspectives: Hemianopia—Toward Novel Treatment Options Based on Oscillatory Activity?
Friedhelm Christoph Hummel, Estelle Emeline Raffin, Roberto Felipe Salamanca Giron
Stroke has become one of the main causes of visual impairment, with more than 15 million incidences of first-time strokes, per year, worldwide. One-third of stroke survivors exhibit visual impairment, and most of them will not fully recover. Some recovery ...
2019Spatially selective activation of the visual cortex via intraneural stimulation of the optic nerve
Silvestro Micera, Diego Ghezzi, Fiorenzo Artoni, Paola Vagni, Vivien Gaillet, Ariastity Mega Pratiwi, Dario Lipucci Di Paola
Retinal prostheses can restore a functional form of vision in patients affected by dystrophies of the outer retinal layer. Beyond clinical utility, prostheses for the stimulation of the optic nerve, the visual thalamus or the visual cortex could also serve ...
2019In vivo electrical stimulation of the optic nerve and hybrid computational model for neuroprosthetic applications
Silvestro Micera, Diego Ghezzi, Samuel Charles Antoine Gilliéron, Fiorenzo Artoni, Paola Vagni, Vivien Gaillet
Blindness affects millions of people worldwide, dramatically decreasing their quality of life. Retinal dystrophies, such as age related macular degeneration and Retinitis Pigmentosa, which are leading causes of blindness in industrialized countries, curren ...
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