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Whilst performing an experimental brain procedure to help an obsess man lose weight, scientist have discovered that they may have found a way to improve memory.
According to The Independent, “the accidental breakthrough came during an experiment originally intended to suppress the obese man’s appetite, using the increasingly successful technique of deep-brain stimulation. Electrodes were pushed into the man’s brain and stimulated with an electric current. Instead of losing appetite, the patient instead had an intense experience of déjà vu.”
Three Alzheimer’s patients have been treated with this ’pacemaker’ for the brain at Toronto Western Hospital in Ontario and according to Andres Lozano, a professor of neurosurgery at Toronto Western Hospital: “This is the first time that anyone has had electrodes implanted in the brain which have been shown to improve memory. We are driving the activity of the brain by increasing its sensitivity – turning up the volume of the memory circuits. Any event that involves the memory circuits is more likely to be stored and retained.”
According to The Independent, “the accidental breakthrough came during an experiment originally intended to suppress the obese man’s appetite, using the increasingly successful technique of deep-brain stimulation. Electrodes were pushed into the man’s brain and stimulated with an electric current. Instead of losing appetite, the patient instead had an intense experience of déjà vu.”
Three Alzheimer’s patients have been treated with this ’pacemaker’ for the brain at Toronto Western Hospital in Ontario and according to Andres Lozano, a professor of neurosurgery at Toronto Western Hospital: “This is the first time that anyone has had electrodes implanted in the brain which have been shown to improve memory. We are driving the activity of the brain by increasing its sensitivity – turning up the volume of the memory circuits. Any event that involves the memory circuits is more likely to be stored and retained.”