Friday, May 03, 2013

Memory Implants


Memory implants


A maverick neuroscientist believes he has deciphered the code by which the brain forms long-term memories
May 1, 2013
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Electrode array for monitoring and duplicating hippocampus neuron activity (credit: T. Berger et al./Journal of Neural Engineering)
Teodore Berger, a biomedical engineer and neuroscientist at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, envisions a day in the not too distant future when a patient with severe memory loss can get help from an electronic implant, MIT Technology Review reports./.../

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