A clinical trial testing visual cortex microstimulation revealed a sustained, spontaneous recovery of natural vision in a totally blind patient (VIDEO)
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Over the following months, the patient followed a daily visual training routine of at least 30 minutes, including standardized exercises of increasing complexity to assess light perception, spatial localization, motion detection, visual acuity, contrast sensitivity, and the search, identification, and tracking of objects, shapes, letters, and numbers.
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Alfaro, A., Soo, L., et al. (2026). Brain Communications. https://doi.org/10.1093/braincomms/fcaf504
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