If solved
Restoring and protecting memory
Implants and drugs rebuild lost memory and keep dementia from erasing a life's recollections.
Open in the interactive tree →If memory coding and the mechanisms of neurodegeneration are understood, implants could replace damaged hippocampal functions and drugs could halt cell loss. The result would be graceful aging of the mind.
What it brings
- Memory aids for brain injury and dementia
- Prevention of cognitive decline
- New learning tools
Prerequisites
- Alzheimer's antibody drugs2023Clearing amyloid is the first attempt to protect failing memory with a drug
- Brain-computer interfaces2023
- Alzheimer's and brain declineopen
- How memories are storedopen