{"id":27459,"date":"2016-07-02T09:31:51","date_gmt":"2016-07-02T16:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/could-zaps-to-the-brain-help-fight-glaucoma"},"modified":"2017-04-25T19:52:59","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T02:52:59","slug":"could-zaps-to-the-brain-help-fight-glaucoma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/could-zaps-to-the-brain-help-fight-glaucoma","title":{"rendered":"Could \u2018Zaps\u2019 to the Brain Help Fight Glaucoma?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"http:\/\/bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com\/stltoday.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/5\/83\/58304a72-a0d2-597c-91c1-0863af3d8ef4\/57774dfd44d2d.preview.jpg?resize=800%2C600\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>FRIDAY, July 1, 2016 (HealthDay News) \u2014 Electrical pulses to the brain may help restore vision in some partially blind patients, German researchers report.<\/p>\n<p>Glaucoma and other types of damage to the eye\u2019s optic nerve typically cause permanent damage. But, the new technique appears to kick-start the brain\u2019s visual control centers, the researchers explained.<\/p>\n<p>A 10-day treatment regimen \u2014 entailing upwards of nearly an hour a day of electrical pulses aimed directly into the eye \u2014 improved vision among patients who were losing their sight, the researchers said.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/lifestyles\/health-med-fit\/could-zaps-to-the-brain-help-fight-glaucoma\/article_58304a72-a0d2-597c-91c1-0863af3d8ef4.html\">http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/lifestyles\/health-med-fit\/could-zaps...d8ef4.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FRIDAY, July 1, 2016 (HealthDay News) \u2014 Electrical pulses to the brain may help restore vision in some partially blind patients, German researchers report. Glaucoma and other types of damage to the eye\u2019s optic nerve typically cause permanent damage. But, the new technique appears to kick-start the brain\u2019s visual control centers, the researchers explained. A [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40927,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27459\/revisions\/40927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}