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First Neural Devise to Restore Memory

Everyone has lapses of memory at one time or another, but for some individuals, memory loss is an enduring feature of their everyday lives. Recently, the Department of Defense's DARPA gave 2.5 million dollars to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to develop a device that can be implanted into the brain to help restore memories. If successful, the neural device should provide the ability to record and stimulate neurons in the brain. Illnesses and injuries such as TBI, Alzheimers and epilepsy may benefit from this procedure."Currently, there is no effective treatment for memory loss resulting from conditions like TBI," says Satinderpall Pannu, LLNL's project leader. The device would me implanted into the entorhinal cortex and hippocampus, areas of the brain associated with memory, to allow stimulation and recordings for 64 channels located on a pair of high density electrode arrays. This experiment could possibly change the healthcare system and neurological science in so many ways. I, for one, am anxious to see if this device will actually work.

References: Wood, Samuel E., Ellen R. Green. Wood, and Denise Roberts. Boyd. //Mastering the World of Psychology//. Fourth ed. Boston: Pearson/Allyn and Bacon, 2011. Print.

DOE/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. "DARPA taps Lawrence Livermore to develop world's first neural device to restore memory." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 10 July 2014. .

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