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=DARPA taps Lawrence Livermore to develop world's first neural device to restore memory =

A cure all and end all for Alzheimers and other memory based problems such as traumatic brain injuries(TBI) is upon is. Researchers at the Lawrence Livermore national laboratory have been given the challenge to create a device which will be implanted inside the brain to record and stimulate neurons, allowing for extreme advances in memory function. The team at LLNL hope to achieve this by creating such a device that can, in a way, mimic how we encode, story, and retrieve information. The neural device would do so by creating a link between injured neurons in the brain in hopes that it will be able to retrieve new and access old information. LLNL plans to, once developed, places the device in the entorhinal cortex and hippocampus, which are two of the most major areas of the brain associated with memory. The scientists at LLNL have made numerous advances in this field since the beginning of their research, totaling 25 patents and many publications. The team hopes to have a device complete by 2017 for clinical testing in hopes to rid the plague of alzheimers and TBI in our world. It is an amazing era to be alive just to be able to know that a few years from now we have the possibility of not having to worry if grandma will remember who we are when she wakes up, or not having to worry about a soldier coming home from war with an injury and not remembering who his wife of twenty years is.

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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