How’s your hippocampus? Did you forget you have one? Did you ever know you had one? It’s certainly not something you invite friends over to talk about. At least I never have. And, I don’t anyone that has.
The hippocampus, a brain structure tucked deep in the brain’s temporal lobe, that converts short-term memories into long-term memories. Live Science reports that Theodore Berger of the University of Southern California is developing a prosthesis to restore memory by replacing a circuit in the brain’s hippocampus. According to the report, Berger’s team is developing the device that may replace a damaged hippocampus or even enhance an intact one. The device has been successfully tested on mice and monkeys. The researchers are now running a human trial on patients with epilepsy. The hope is that ultimately that the memory prostheses could restore or enhance human memory.
The question is, "are you going to remember anything about this?" You may want to sign up now for the next human trial. It’s too late for me. I can’t remember where I put my glasses.
I’m going to get some mice and a monkey and let them remember everything I need to.
PMO
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