Pacemaker for the Heart: now one for the brain
January 31st 2008 21:07
Some UK scientists accidentally discovered that by stimulating a specific part of the brain with electrodes, they can significantly improve a person's memory:
Originally intended to suppress an obese man's appetite, electrodes inserted into the brain were stimulated with an electric current. The patient remembered in detail a scene from thirty years earlier.
the technique is now being trialed for Alzheimer's patients.
This would be like having a pacemaker for the Heart.
Parkinson's patients are sometimes treated this way but it has come as a surprise that a certain area of the hypothalamus when stimulated electrically improves memory.
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