American scientists have completed a scientific project whose main task was to increase and enhance human memory. The results of the study are encouraging, according to Pannochka, an online publication for girls and women aged 14 to 35.. net The first subjects were epileptic patients at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center who already had implanted electronic equipment and participated in similar experiments.. All of them, with the help of new technology, managed to improve the functioning of short-term memory..

During the experiments, patients played simple computer games based on memory training - to remember the type, location, combinations of objects, etc.. Scientists at this time read signals from neurons around the region of the hippocampus responsible for the formation of permanent memories.. They made patterns of neuron patterns that corresponded to the best results in games.

Further, after a long pause, when the data almost disappeared from the memory of the patients, they were instructed to play the same games. But now, with the help of special equipment, the brains of patients were stimulated according to reference patterns.. And here is the result: the work of short-term memory improved in 37% of cases, and long-term memory, from 75 minutes or more, by as much as 35%. Patients who forgot how to use a fork during the day improved their memory by a third.

Robert Hampson, lead author of the study, insists that they are not tasked with writing information directly into the human brain.. Or replace old memories with new ones. At this stage, the technology is intended purely for medical purposes - to learn how to stimulate the work of different parts of the brain in patients with Alzheimer's disease and the like.. So that people can overcome illness, recover, and not turn into cyborgs with memory chips in their heads.

" This is an important first step in potentially curing memory loss,” says Robert Hampson, principal investigator on the project..

The scientists received funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which hopes such work will help soldiers with memory loss from a severe head injury..

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