Posted by jrbecker on October 22, 2004, at 14:59:32
WIRED NEWS
02:00 AM Oct. 22, 2004 PTIn this era of high-tech memory management, next in line to get that memory upgrade isn't your computer, it's you.
Professor Theodore W. Berger, director of the Center for Neural Engineering at the University of Southern California, is creating a silicon chip implant that mimics the hippocampus, an area of the brain known for creating memories. If successful, the artificial brain prosthesis could replace its biological counterpart, enabling people who suffer from memory disorders to regain the ability to store new memories.....[story cont'd]....
http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,65422,00.html?tw=rss.MED
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