DALLAS: A pioneering neuroscientist who succeeded in enhancing memory in rats using brain chip implants is now ready to start trialling the technology on humans, spinning off his research into a startup to make the implants into a commercial product.
Dr Theodore Berger, a professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Southern California (USC) in the US and director of USC’s Centre of Neural Engineering, has spent his career trying to figure out how neurons form memories, in order to help people suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, dementia, stroke or brain injuries restore the ability to create long-term memories…