Expert: Carolyn Primus - 9/6/2009

Question
I was wonderinf if to your knowledge it is possible to monitor the electrical signals sent from the eye down the optic nerve?
Also if i had a way to create and send these signals down the optic nerve do you believe this would be possible for a blind person to see?

Answer
this is out of my area of expertise but try these sites:
http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/19613/page1/
http://www.99main.com/~charlief/Blindness.htm;
http://www.tedmontgomery.com/the_eye/optcnrve.html

There's lots of information to be had about the eye in general Internet sites and medical journals.