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Light, Shadow and Sound

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Diane Laurin

Of the many biomedical achievements that have transformed our lives, few are as heartening as the use of light to give people the gifts of sight and hearing. From Northwestern University comes news that researcher and associate professor Dr. Claus-Peter Richter has successfully used mid-infrared light to stimulate auditory nerves in guinea pigs. The experiments augur well for those who are deaf since acoustical information is coded similarly in human and guinea pig auditory nerves. Dr. Richter’s team found that optically evoked neural activities are extremely selective and have a wide...Read full article

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    Published: April 2009
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