Understanding Blindness and the Brain (Brian Wandell, Stanford University)

Professor Brian Wandell tells the inspirational story of Mike May, the world-record holder for blind downhill skiing. Wandell leads a multidisciplinary team of Stanford researchers who are working together to treat the many dimensions of blindness: retinal imaging, neural connections, and social psychology.

Prof. Wandell's website:
http://white.stanford.edu/~brian/

Stanford University:
http://www.stanford.edu/

Stanford University Channel on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/stanford

Category:

Education

Tags:

• science
• technology
• medicine
• vision
• blind
• surgery
• eyesight
• brain
• circuits
• neurons
• synapses
• connection
• eyes
• cortex
• fovea
• magnetic
• resonance
• imaging
• MRI
• color
• interpret
• light
• photons
• reflection
• Brian
• Wandell
• Stanford
• research
• Mike
• May
• heal

[AutumnTeaLeaves]

I am applying to Stanford this year. I am very interested in the workings of the eye, so this video was very nice. Thank you very much for posting it :).

[DizzyGee]

Incredibly interesting--thank you!

[happinesson]

Discussed by a brainy man! this video Opened my eyes to the important connection of brain and sight. very broad topic but discussed very simple!

[lovelplants]

what an inspirational story! really! wow its his wife his first sight.. 

[thegreeensky]

nice topic... very interesting..

[thebigfootme]

very smart!

[agapitoflores001]

Woohh...Really BRAINY..

[tyko411]

I REALLY want to take psychology for my sophomore year , i think this is going to be great i already think this is interesting !

[lOVEvIRUS95]

@AutumnTeaLeaves i am intriged by the brain. the top schools for psycology is Harvard, yale, or stanford. so im applying to all 3 of these. (im only a freshman) x) but i wanna get started now with my college route :)