Memory Chips for Your Brain: Science Fiction?

  Sometimes, science is better than science fiction. Professionals from the University of South Carolina and Wake Forest University recently presented the world with a study conducted over the past ten years. In fact, their research could serve as a basis for the treatment of multiple neurodegenerative diseases. This study has been published in the Journal of Neural Engineering. It concludes that it’s possible to implant a memory chip for the integration of memories in living brains. Brain areas involved in memory The experiment focuses on key regions for information storage and memory formation. The role of the hippocampus in…