March 12, 2003
USC researchers are developing the first brain prothesis, an artificial hippocampus to replace damaged brain tissue.
Scientists will initially test the “brain chip” on rat brains. The silicon-chip programming was developed by stimulating slices of rat hippocampus with electrical signals millions of times to determine which input produced a corresponding output. The chip would translate activity coming from the rest of the brain and send the necessary output instructions… read more