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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Comment by KylieW
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Comment by Miswanderlust
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Hipnotherapy
I have a friend with Parkinsons who wears the gadget you describe. Although it has helped in his mobility but has caused him to be more depressed. The doctor who developed this "pacemaker" for the brain told him that his memory might improve also. I guess you take the good with the bad.
Mis