{"id":89316,"date":"2019-04-08T12:02:27","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T19:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/memory-of-older-people-returned-to-state-of-someone-in-their-20s"},"modified":"2019-04-08T12:02:27","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T19:02:27","slug":"memory-of-older-people-returned-to-state-of-someone-in-their-20s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/memory-of-older-people-returned-to-state-of-someone-in-their-20s","title":{"rendered":"Memory of older people returned to state of someone in their 20s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/memory-of-older-people-returned-to-state-of-someone-in-their-20s3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The memory of older people has been returned to the state of someone in their 20s for the first time by applying electrical stimulation to the brain to reconnect faulty circuits.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists at Boston University in the US have proven it is possible to restore working memory by \u2018recoupling\u2019 areas of the brain which have become out-of-sync<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/2018\/01\/22\/retirement-causes-brain-function-rapidly-decline-warn-scientists\/\"> as people grow older<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Short-term working memory is crucial for everyday life, storing information for around 10 \u2014 15 seconds to allow problem solving, reasoning, planning and decision making, allowing someone, for example, to keep a telephone number in mind while writing it down.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/2019\/04\/08\/memory-older-people-returned-state-someone-20s\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The memory of older people has been returned to the state of someone in their 20s for the first time by applying electrical stimulation to the brain to reconnect faulty circuits. Scientists at Boston University in the US have proven it is possible to restore working memory by \u2018recoupling\u2019 areas of the brain which have [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89316","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}