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The First Bionic Eye | National Geographic


fighting 49 i started at night blindness
I had 2020 vision you will not be
driving in cars who come take the Iowa I
couldn’t say
spoken it takes a great deal of courage
on the part of the patient to become
involved and study like this we’re
taking people that have no light
perception and we’re attempting to
restore some level of vision I’m the
doctor any real close several time
dignitary changes that occur in the
peripheral retina gave the disease its
name he said Joey I’m going to go have
to tune to something stillborn and he
called my daddy
I spent the day they’re all kind of days
the rod and cone cells in the retina
degenerate they’re not call this means
office the earliest symptom is night
blindness that next is tunnel vision he
told me that I had retinitis pigmentosa
didn’t need to be having any more
children and I didn’t need to be drive
me more and that was that so I went home
and had to tell my husband he give you
his freedom oh he could have one and he
cried tears rolled down his treat he
said that he said joe i remember one to
cyber
how’s that who knows the way this works
is that it is placed on the surface of
the retina on the inner surface of the
retina on the inside of the eye the
array really does not have any direct
effect on the rod and cone cells in
retinitis pigmentosa the rod and cone
cells are completely degenerated so what
we’re doing with the array is we’re
stimulating areas of the retina that are
downstream from the rod and cone cells
specifically we’re stimulating a layer
called the ganglion cell layer and they
form the optic nerves and directly sends
impulses to the brain
I would like to be able to stay all
night rebuilding my bridge just love to
see the beauty of nature however people
talk to me about what they slaying and
some areas i can picture in my mouth
because I’ve been so blessed to be able
to see it my turn
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