{"id":73772,"date":"2017-11-15T00:42:29","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T08:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/for-the-first-time-ever-scientists-have-boosted-human-memory-with-a-brain-implant"},"modified":"2017-11-15T00:42:29","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T08:42:29","slug":"for-the-first-time-ever-scientists-have-boosted-human-memory-with-a-brain-implant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/for-the-first-time-ever-scientists-have-boosted-human-memory-with-a-brain-implant","title":{"rendered":"For The First Time Ever Scientists Have Boosted Human Memory With a Brain Implant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/for-the-first-time-ever-scientists-have-boosted-human-memory-with-a-brain-implant2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With everyone from <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/heres-everything-you-need-to-know-about-elon-musks-humanai-brain-merge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Elon Musk<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/mits-super-thin-wires-are-leading-to-a-new-age-in-brain-implants\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MIT<\/a> to the <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/u-s-department-of-defense-has-enlisted-six-teams-to-develop-new-brain-computer-interface-technologies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">US Department of Defense<\/a> researching brain implants, it seems only a matter of time before such devices are ready to help humans <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/brain-implant-human-evolution\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">extend their natural capabilities<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a professor from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usc.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">University of Southern California (USC)<\/a> has demonstrated the use of a brain implant to improve the human memory, and the device could have major implications for the treatment of one of the US\u2019s deadliest diseases.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/viterbi.usc.edu\/directory\/faculty\/Song\/Dong\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dong Song<\/a> is a research associate professor of biomedical engineering at USC, and he recently presented his findings on a \u201cmemory prosthesis\u201d during a meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in Washington D.C. According to <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2153034-brain-implant-boosts-human-memory-by-mimicking-how-we-learn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a New Scientist<\/a> <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2153034-brain-implant-boosts-human-memory-by-mimicking-how-we-learn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">report<\/a>, the device is the first to effectively improve the human memory.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/for-the-first-time-ever-scientists-have-boosted-human-memory-with-a-brain-implant\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/for-the-first-time-ever-scientis...in-implant<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With everyone from Elon Musk to MIT to the US Department of Defense researching brain implants, it seems only a matter of time before such devices are ready to help humans extend their natural capabilities. Now, a professor from the University of Southern California (USC) has demonstrated the use of a brain implant to improve [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1499,2019,38,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cyborgs","category-elon-musk","category-engineering","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}