Advances and challenges in the development of visual prostheses

PLoS Biol. 2024 Oct 24;22(10):e3002896. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3002896. eCollection 2024 Oct.

Abstract

The past 20 years have witnessed significant advancements in the field of visual prostheses, with developments spanning from early retinal implants to recent cortical approaches. This Perspective looks at some of the remaining challenges to achieve the ambitious clinical goals that these technologies could enable.

MeSH terms

  • Humans
  • Prosthesis Design / trends
  • Retina / physiology
  • Visual Cortex / physiology
  • Visual Prosthesis*

Grants and funding

This work was supported in part by grants PDC2022-133952-100 and PID2022-141606OB-I00 from the Spanish “Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades”, by grant CIPROM/2023/25 from the Generalitat Valenciana, and by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement No. 899287 (NeuraViPeR) to EF. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.