Memory Implants: when can we get it?

Memory Implants: when can we get it?

You must’ve met several old people having memory problems, or should’ve seen those Hollywood movies where accident victims have issues in remembering anything at all. Imagine a world, where all this would become laughable and you’ll be and to remember just about anything with the click of an event or even only with the help of a gesture!

Scientists are constantly sweating it in the labs to make it ask possible for you. People who are the victims of Alzheimer’s stroke, or disrupted neuronal networks, often have problems in forming long-term memories.

Theodore Berger, a biomedical engineer and neuroscientist at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, is one scientist who’s giving it all to achieve his long lived dream of having his piece of technology mimic the memory formation and retrieval process inside the brain.

Although Berger and his research partners have not yet conducted any human tests of their neural prostheses, but with their experiments, they were successful in processing information by electrodes, when tested with rats and monkeys.

Apart from Berger’s experiments and research, scientists have also tried processing information, similar to a prefrontal cortex. They placed electrodes in the monkey brains to capture the code formed in the prefrontal cortex, which is responsible to allow the animals to remember images. Upon drugging these monkeys with cocaine, the corresponding part was blocked away from the brain. The implanted electrodes were then able to do the job of the prefrontal cortex, successfully and efficiently.

Thus, with this level of research being conducted, the days are not too far away when all our memories

Memory Implants: when can we get it?