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Brain Prosthesis Ready For Testing

Posted by timothy on Wednesday March 12, 2003 @09:12AM from the can-we-nominate-recipients dept.

jhouserizer writes "New Scientist is reporting that an artificial hippocampus is ready to undergo testing. The leader of the team of scientists is Theodore Berger of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. They hope these artificial hippocampuses can replace damaged (stroke, Alzheimer's, etc.) portions of your brain. I wonder what portions of 'you' would be noticeably different to your family & friends? I wonder how long it will be before we can have HUDs, such as in this story by Cory Doctorow?"

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give me brains! by B3ryllium · 2003-03-12 09:14 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I need brains!

Hippocampwhatsus?
1st post? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-03-12 09:14 · Score: -1, Offtopic

probably not cause slashdot sux so much ass
not sure... by Mdog · 2003-03-12 09:16 · Score: -1, Offtopic

...if this is the same idea in a different package, but there's a similar article over at Tubgirl medical journal

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Yes! CmdTaco will now be able to read and speak! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-03-12 09:19 · Score: -1, Offtopic

'Tis all in the subject...
Cory Doctorow is a talentless hack by Anonymous Coward · 2003-03-12 09:21 · Score: -1, Offtopic

His name is not worth dropping. Please stop doing it.
Hoax? by bill2009 · 2003-03-12 11:39 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I do see that it's from the New Scientist but it seems awfully unlikely. I remember seeing someting about Berger years ago and that was definitely in the "someday..." category.