A wireless <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/lifestyle/health-and-fitness/article/low-accumulation-of-abdominal-fat-in-midlife-linked-with-slow-brain-atrophy-study-23629203" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">brain</a> implant designed to restore artificial vision has been implanted in a third blind participant as part of an ongoing US study.
The Intracortical Visual Prosthesis (ICVP) device bypasses the eye entirely, directly stimulating the brain&rsquo;s visual cortex to generate patterns of artificial sight.&nbsp;
The system uses multiple miniaturised wireless stimulators implanted into the brain, each carrying electrodes that deliver controlled electrical pulses.
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The ICVP device bypasses the eye entirely, directly stimulating the brain`s visual cortex to create artificial visual perception for the blind.

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The Intracortical Visual Prosthesis (ICVP) device bypasses the eye entirely, directly stimulating the brain’s visual cortex to generate patterns of artificial sight. 

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