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LAWRENCE LIVERMORE LABS. "On the electrical end, LLNL’s new wafer technology will use fairly high electrode counts, perhaps 500-1000 spots. While higher density 11,000-electrode chips have been par for the course in single neuron analysis, these chips will have more sparsely distributed electrode locations. Integrated light guides will provide conduits for optogenetic manipulations, and as an added bonus bi-directional fluid channels for any number of chemical exchanges are also etched in. To wire everything up, new standardized multiplexed connectors are also in the works.” https://lnkd.in/duuv7mx View in LinkedIn

BLACK BOX. “Until now the only serious effort to build an implantable memory device was that of Ted Berger’s lab at USC. As we have seen, with just a limited set of electrodes in hippocampal regions and no real clue as to what kinds of codes are involved (hint: the code is there are no codes), they have their work cut out for them." (2014). https://lnkd.in/duuv7mx View in LinkedIn

MEMORY IMPLANT TRAILS START 2015. "Two studies funded by the U.S. military's research wing suggest that implanted electrodes could improve memory.” http://europe.newsweek.com/human-trials-begin-memory-improving-brain-implants-335978 View in LinkedIn

“DARPA's $40 million grant challenge to develop a neuroprosthesis within four years.” https://lnkd.in/dN4YrCY View in LinkedIn

HUMAN RESULTS. “A few dozen people who were given brain implants that delivered targeted shocks to their mind's memory center scored better on memory tests, DARPA announced at a conference in St. Louis last week.” http://www.businessinsider.com/brain-implants-for-memory-2015-9 View in LinkedIn

BRAIN AS MACHINE. “The flow of information within the hippocampus that supports memory encoding. Key to this process is a strong electrical signal that travels from CA3, the “input” part of the hippocampus, to CA1, the “output” node. This signal is impaired in people with memory disabilities...if we could recreate it using silicon, we might be able to restore — or even boost — memory.” http://singularityhub.com/2015/11/15/first-human-tests-of-memory-boosting-brain-implant-a-big-leap-forward/ View in LinkedIn

REDUCTIONIST MODEL. “At its heart, a memory is a series of electrical pulses that occur over time that are generated by a given number of neurons...This is important — it suggests that we can reduce it to mathematical equations and put it into a computational framework.” http://singularityhub.com/2015/11/15/first-human-tests-of-memory-boosting-brain-implant-a-big-leap-forward/ View in LinkedIn