Neuroscience News

Glaucoma, which affects nearly 70 million people worldwide, is caused by excessive pressure on the optic nerve — essentially the same kind of damage relieved by the manipulations in Andy Huberman’s study of restoration of vision in living mammals.

The first time any eye-brain connections have ever been restored in a mammal — a step millions of people suffering from serious vision loss will be happy to hear about.

Broken links between retinal ganglion cells and target structures throughout the brain spell permanent vision loss. But in a new study, these long-distance connections — and partial vision — were restored.