{"id":6863,"date":"2015-10-11T21:07:36","date_gmt":"2015-10-12T04:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=6863"},"modified":"2015-10-07T19:14:16","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T02:14:16","slug":"algorithming-alzheimers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2015\/10\/11\/algorithming-alzheimers\/","title":{"rendered":"Algorithming Alzheimer&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/uk\/609875\/new-implant-reverse-Alzheimers-memory-loss-high-tech-device-treatment\" target=\"_blank\">from Express<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>Memory loss breakthrough: New implant can reverse Alzheimer&#8217;s damage<\/h1>\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/search\/Anil+Dawar?s=Anil+Dawar&amp;b=1\" target=\"_blank\">ANIL DAWAR<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.images.express.co.uk\/img\/dynamic\/1\/590x\/brain-scan-609875.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"auto\" \/><em>GETTY<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have developed an electronic implant to help brains damaged by Alzheimer\u2019s retain memories.<\/p>\n<p>They hope it will be used to take over certain areas of diseased brains to help \u201ctranslate\u201d a short-term memory into a permanent one.<\/p>\n<p>The project is funded by the US military as a way of helping injured soldiers overcome memory loss.<\/p>\n<p>But researchers say the astonishing technology could also help to treat brain diseases such as Alzheimer\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>Alzheimer\u2019s causes the brain to degenerate and the damage interferes with the formation of new long-term memories while old ones survive.<\/p>\n<p>The new US technology has already been tested on nine people with epilepsy who had electrodes implanted in their brains to treat chronic seizures.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers read the electrical signals created in the patients\u2019 brains as they conducted simple tasks.<\/p>\n<p>The results were then used to create a computer program which could predict with 90 per cent accuracy how the signals would be translated.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/uk\/609875\/new-implant-reverse-Alzheimers-memory-loss-high-tech-device-treatment\" target=\"_blank\">click to read full article at Express<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Express Memory loss breakthrough: New implant can reverse Alzheimer&#8217;s damage By\u00a0ANIL DAWAR GETTY Scientists have developed an electronic implant to help brains damaged by Alzheimer\u2019s retain memories. They hope it will be used to take over certain areas of diseased brains to help \u201ctranslate\u201d a short-term memory into a permanent one. The project is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}