John S Pezaris

Summary

Affiliation: Harvard University
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Getting signals into the brain: visual prosthetics through thalamic microstimulation
    John S Pezaris
    Department of Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    Neurosurg Focus 27:E6. 2009
  2. ncbi Simulations of electrode placement for a thalamic visual prosthesis
    John S Pezaris
    Neurosurgery Department, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
    IEEE Trans Biomed Eng 56:172-8. 2009
  3. ncbi The spatial receptive field of thalamic inputs to single cortical simple cells revealed by the interaction of visual and electrical stimulation
    Prakash Kara
    Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 99:16261-6. 2002
  4. ncbi Demonstration of artificial visual percepts generated through thalamic microstimulation
    John S Pezaris
    Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, 220 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104:7670-5. 2007

Research Grants

  1. Thalamic Visual Prosthesis
    John S Pezaris; Fiscal Year: 2010

Detail Information

Publications4

  1. ncbi Getting signals into the brain: visual prosthetics through thalamic microstimulation
    John S Pezaris
    Department of Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    Neurosurg Focus 27:E6. 2009
    ..The theory of operation of visual prostheses is discussed, along with a review of the current state of knowledge. Finally, the visual prosthesis is proposed as a model for a general high-fidelity machine-brain interface...
  2. ncbi Simulations of electrode placement for a thalamic visual prosthesis
    John S Pezaris
    Neurosurgery Department, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
    IEEE Trans Biomed Eng 56:172-8. 2009
    ..For idealized microwire electrodes, spacing as large as 600 microm in three dimensions would allow for over 250 phosphenes per visual hemifield in macaques, and over 800 in humans...
  3. ncbi The spatial receptive field of thalamic inputs to single cortical simple cells revealed by the interaction of visual and electrical stimulation
    Prakash Kara
    Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 99:16261-6. 2002
    ..These findings extend previous results from intracellular recordings, but also demonstrate the effectiveness of an extracellular method of measuring subthreshold afferent input to cortex...
  4. ncbi Demonstration of artificial visual percepts generated through thalamic microstimulation
    John S Pezaris
    Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, 220 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104:7670-5. 2007
    ..Microstimulation produced predictable visual percepts, showing that this technique may be useful for a visual prosthesis...

Research Grants1

  1. Thalamic Visual Prosthesis
    John S Pezaris; Fiscal Year: 2010
    ..As proposed here, an important step in making a device like that is to understand how complicated it needs to be in order to be useful and to test a prototype in an animal model. ..