Sensation: Scientists implanted memory

Sensation: Scientists implanted memory
Sensation: Scientists implanted memory
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What was the subject of more than one or two Hollywood fantasy plots is now a reality. Scientists from the Industrial Physics and Chemistry Higher Educational Institution in Paris, for the first time in the world, were able to implant memory in laboratory mice while the rodents were asleep. This will enable the technology to be used in humans in the future to alter, for example, the memories of PTSD sufferers.

Normally, the brain reproduces the information gathered through deya when the person or animal sleeps, allowing the idea of memory implantation to take place. It was this feature that scientists used to create new memories in the brains of sleeping mice.

Experts have focused on spatial cells, which represent neurons activated in the process of thinking. While the mice slept, their brains were monitored and when the spatial cells began to activate, stimulation was performed via electrodes on the reward zones.

After waking up, the mice immediately went to those places that were associated with the new pleasant memories that were actually implanted under the influence of the stimulation. Human experiments are now forthcoming.

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