Month: September 2022

CYBORG REALITIES. “Biodigital brains are made by fusing chips with brain tissue. The technology is racing beyond most people's ability to comprehend the potential to transform how we think and feel. As a physician, I'm fascinated.” https://lnkd.in/djXaYVY View in LinkedIn

MEMORY PROSTHESIS. “In rats, we’ve restored damaged memories via a “hippocampus chip” implanted in the brain. Human trials are starting this year. Now, you say your memory is just fine. Well, in rats, this chip can actually improve memory. And researchers can capture the neural trace of an experience, record it, and play it back any time they want later on. Sounds useful.” https://lnkd.in/eFd9Fdg View in LinkedIn

MEMORY MANIPULATION. “Two new reports this week may be moving the study of memory into a brave new world, where we can not only monitor memory but manipulate it." (2014). https://lnkd.in/dFkUkGP View in LinkedIn

OPTOGENIC MEMORY MANIPULATION. “We found that in the DG, the neurons carrying the memory engram of a given neutral context have plasticity such that the valence of a conditioned response evoked by their reactivation can be reversed by re-associating this contextual memory engram with a new unconditioned stimulus of an opposite valence.” https://lnkd.in/d7i_gkP View in LinkedIn

NON-INVASIVE. “We therefore used targeted noninvasive electromagnetic stimulation to modulate human cortical-hippocampal networks and tested effects of this manipulation on memory.” http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25170153 View in LinkedIn

ELECTROMAGNETIC STIMULATION. “Multiple-session stimulation increased functional connectivity among distributed cortical-hippocampal network regions and concomitantly improved associative memory performance. These alterations involved localized long-term plasticity because increases were highly selective to the targeted brain regions, and enhancements of connectivity and associative memory persisted for ~24 hours after stimulation. Targeted cortical-hippocampal networks can thus be enhanced noninvasively, demonstrating their role in associative memory.” http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25170153 View in LinkedIn

MEMORY IMPLANTS. “New electric array brain implants are reportedly "showing promise" in assisting people who are trying to dig up memories from the farthest reaches of their minds. What makes the new process so innovative is the way it 'reads' the neural processes of the brain - it can see how our minds form and retrieve memories, and is even able to predict when our powers of recall are about to let us down.” http://www.sciencealert.com/us-defence-scientists-have-invented-a-brain-implant-that-boosts-memory View in LinkedIn

DARPA MEMORY. “If work being backed by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) goes according to plan, we one day will be able to implant chips into our brains that will make sure we never forget anything...Scientists have already tested out implants in people suffering from brain injuries to improve their memory.” https://lnkd.in/d86AmuV View in LinkedIn