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Theodore Berger, a USC biomedical engineer, is working on an artificial hippocampus. The microchip goes in the brain and routes traffic properly to improve patients with Alzheimer's, strokes, epilepsy etc.

Crazy shit. Right now they have a test bed for a "cortical prosthesis", and Berger estimates implant use in 10-15 years.

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