Military-Funded Study Successfully Tests 'Prosthetic Memory' Brain Implants
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Military-Funded Study Successfully Tests 'Prosthetic Memory' Brain Implants

Publication Title
Live Science
Publication/Creation Date
April 6 2018
Creators/Contributors
Brandon Specktor (creator)
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA (contributor)
Media Type
Magazine Article
Persuasive Intent
Information
Discursive Type
Responses To Inventions
Description
"In the study, which was funded by the U.S. Defense Advancement Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Hampson and his colleagues tested the [memory] prosthetic system on 15 patients enrolled for epilepsy treatments at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center."
HCI Platform
Implantables
Relation to Body
In
Related Body Part
Brain
Augments
Remembering, Testing, Improving, Treating
Technology Keywords
Neuroprosthetics, Brain Implants, Brain Stimulation, Brain-Computer Interface (BCI)
Keywords
Memory, Medical, Research, Study, Patients, Stroke, Brain Function, Alzheimer’s Disease, Funding, Military
Marketing Keywords
Live Science
Source
https://www.livescience.com/62234-prosthetic-memory-neural-implant.html
Related Objects
Developing a hippocampal neural prosthetic to facilitate human memory encoding and recall (Video abstract)
Related Items
Brandon Specktor
Live Science
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA
Date archived
August 15 2018
Last edited
July 5 2021
How to cite this entry
Brandon Specktor. (April 6 2018). "Military-Funded Study Successfully Tests 'Prosthetic Memory' Brain Implants". Live Science. Live Science. Fabric of Digital Life. https://fabricofdigitallife.com/Detail/objects/3123