The brain science collaboration that offers hope to blind people
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Neurons and Vision in Neuronal Therapy for Epilepsy
One thing that is I think exciting in this domain is the possibility now to occasionally record also neurons from human patients. So these are patients who have severe forms of epilepsy and the neurologist doesn't find the right cocktail to suppress these epileptic attacks. And we have ethical approval then to attach to these clinical electrodes very tiny wires. And through those we can record single neurons. That was a method that was developed by ISAC-free several years ago. It gives you the unique opportunity to also record from brain cells that are tuned to specific individuals. If you record from these single neurons you can also do amazing things. For instance, sometimes you can, for instance, make associations between stimuli.
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