Canada Pharmacy Discovers: Possibility of Switching On and Off a Memory

Jun 29
08:04

2011

Remcel Mae P. Canete

Remcel Mae P. Canete

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Rats' memory can be re-established even if they were drugged to forget.

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Repairing deficient memories may sooner or later be as simple as pushing a button with the addition of Canada prescription drugs ,Canada Pharmacy Discovers: Possibility of Switching On and Off a Memory Articles based on the findings of scientists together with Canadian drugstore online who re-established brain operation in rats even when they had been purposely medicated with Canadian prescriptions to forget.

"This actually looks like a real step . . . toward some future device that may be very real," according to Dr. Nicholas Schiff, an associate professor of neurology and neuroscience at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City. "It's obviously early, but it looks that, in proof of concept, something like this could partially restore function in a hippocampus not completely damaged."

"Flip the switch on, and the rats remember. Flip it off, and the rats forget," lead author Theodore Berger, a professor of biomedical engineering at USC's Viterbi School of Engineering, stated in a university news release. "The rats still showed that they knew 'when you press left first, then press right next time' . . . and they still knew in general to press levers for water, but they could only remember whether they had pressed left or right for five to 10 seconds."

"Obviously, memory disorders are a hallmark of a number of different disorders of the nervous system, including Alzheimer's, epilepsy and traumatic brain injury," according to another expert, Dr. Ashesh Mehta, director of epilepsy surgery at North Shore-LIJ Comprehensive Epilepsy Care Institute in New Hyde Park, N.Y.

"So there's lots to be said if we could figure out the mechanism by which memory occurs," Mehta further added. And, even though this study was done in animals, "the basic architecture of the hippocampus is preserved in humans," he added.

"Alzheimer's disease has its own underlying biology," he stated. "It knocks out cells in lots and lots of places in an inexorable way. But there are brain injuries where cells are closer to the experimental design here."

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