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A group of researchers from the United States believes that the microchip, which help create memories in a damaged brain, maybe implanted in the volunteer’s brain over the next two years. Scientists from the University of Southern California, Wake Forest University and others, examined the hippocampus, the part of the brain that plays an important role in the formation of long-term memory (about ten years).
They believe that years of research aimed at figure out how memories appear will serve as the basis for producing an implant that can help people with localized brain injury, victims of mechanical damage and patients suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. Researchers already conducted a series of experiments on rats and monkeys, which proved that brain messages can be reproduced by electric signals from a silicon chip. A group of scientists inspired by the results of his discoveries, believes that devices that will be able to reproduce memory processes, become available for patients in the next 5-10 years. Professor Ted Berger, a neurologist and biomedical engineer from the University of Southern California, said reporters: “We do not put individual memories back into brain. Thanks to the implant, the ability to generate memories. I never thought I’d see something like this in my of life. I can’t benefit from it for myself, but my children can. “Rob Hampson, professor of physiology and pharmacology at Wake Forest University, added: “We will continue to move forward. Every day, such implants are becoming more and more real. “The researchers focused on the hippocampus, which located deep inside the brain and consolidates information from short-term memory to long-term. They hope the future the implant will be able to copy messages of brain neurons and reproduce them using the signals of an electric chip. Hampson added: “Now we support and strengthen the signal in the hippocampus, but we are moving forward with the confidence that if we manage to study this part of the brain is good enough and copy its functions, we can do without the hippocampus. “Researchers hope that the device will help patients with brain activity disturbed due to localized injury or stroke. Ultimate goal is a treatment for people suffering from Alzheimer’s but it will require additional research, since this disease affects several parts of the brain.
