By Julie Fidler
Researchers from the University of South Carolina and North Carolina’s Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center have developed a brain prosthesis designed to help dementia sufferers and brain-damaged soldiers recapture their memories.
When sensory input is sent to the brain, a memory is created in the form of a complex electrical signal that travels through multiple regions of the hippocampus, where memories are stored. The signal is re-encoded at each region until it reaches the final region as a completely different signal that is sent off for long-term storage, ScienceDaily explains.
Sensory inputs to the brain include sights, sounds, smells, …read more
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