Nader Pouratian, MD, PhDInnovative Neurotechnologies Early Feasibility Study of a Visual Cortical Pr

Presented At:
LabRoots - Neuroscience Virtual Event 2019

Presented By:
Nader Pouratian, MD, PhD - Associate Professor, Neurosurgery, UCLA Medical Center & UCLA Brain Research Institute

Speaker Biography:
Dr. Pouratian is an Associate Professor of Neurosurgery and Radiation Oncology and affiliated faculty in Bioengineering and Neuroscience. He has broad yet in depth training in both functional neurosurgery and the acquisition and comprehensive analysis of multiple brain mapping modalities and has published extensively in the field of human brain mapping, comparing human brain mapping signals from multiple modalities, including functional MRI, optical imaging, evoked potentials, electrocortical stimulation mapping, electrocorticography, local field potentials, and single unit recordings. As a neurosurgeon, neuroscientist, and bioengineer, he has the unique perspective and training to integrate these fields and take advantages of the unparalleled opportunities presented by neurosurgery to study human brain function and design novel neurotechnologies.

Webinar:
Innovative Neurotechnologies: Early Feasibility Study of a Visual Cortical Prosthesis for the Blind: The Orion Visual Prosthesis System

Webinar Abstract:
Stimulation of human visual cortex is known to elicit visual perceptions that could potentially be used for restoring artificial vision to individuals who have lost their vision due to non-cortical etiologies. Although there have been attempts to build brain stimulators for the visual cortex in the past, fully implanted, chronic cortical visual prostheses have remained theoretical until recently. The Orion Visual Cortical Prosthesis System, which is currently being tested in a clinical trial, is a new device that is intended to restore some functional vision to blind patients.

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