Anicet Mbida 06:51, September 20, 2022

Anicet Mbida delivers to us every morning what is best in terms of innovation.

This Monday, he is interested in a new method to fight against forgetfulness, it is about memory stimulators directly placed on the brain thanks to electrodes.

An innovation for those with a weak memory.

We know about pacemakers.

Soon we may also have memory boosters.

A small device that you stick to the back of your head with a remote control.

As soon as you want to be sure to memorize something, you press the button.

The device will stimulate the brain, put it in the best conditions.

And what one has seen, heard or read should be engraved forever.

It's not science fiction.

The device which has just been tested on twenty volunteers by neuroscientists from the University of Medicine of North Carolina.

We made them learn texts by heart and we make them play a game where you have to memorize cards.

Results: With the memory booster, their ability to memorize more than doubled.

Clearly, they became unbeatable and could recite everything by heart.

Is it a device that will be marketed?

The students will be happy!

Not sure, because to take advantage of it, you must first have your skull opened to place electrodes directly on your brain.

Know that it is a fairly common practice to treat certain neurological disorders such as epilepsy or Alzheimer's disease (two diseases that directly affect memory).

The experiment and the results have also been obtained with epileptic patients who already had electrodes on their brains.

As a result, it is easy to imagine the benefits for a person with Alzheimer's disease.

The slightest improvement in her ability to memorize could allow her to remember faces, what she was doing… It could really change her life.

This is also the objective of the researchers: to develop a medical prosthesis for memory, not a tool to have 20 out of 20 in recitation.

It is still very invasive to place electrodes on the brain.

This is the limit of this process.

Today, unfortunately, we have no other choice.

We are not yet able to precisely stimulate certain areas of the brain through the skull, skin and hair.

This is the subject of all current research.

When we get there, these prostheses will become accessible to many more people.