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09 July 2009
Coming Soon: Photographic Memory in a Pill?
From Denny: This is what I'm running over at The Soul Calendar, a catch-all for various science interests like astronomy, psychology and more:
This pill thing sounds too good to be true! The only problem I ask is this: So, do you have a pill for extra capacity brain storage? :) Because you know people would go wild with this, testing it by reading whole Oxford Dictionaries, encyclopedias, going to the Library of Congress and reading through the entire library - the largest in the world - just to find out how much they could retain.
From the folks over at Popular Science. Here's an excerpt:
"Scientists isolate a protein that significantly increases visual recall
"Wish you had a photographic memory? Well, Encyclopedia Brown, drugs may amp your brain up to that point soon. A group of Spanish scientists claim to have singled out a protein that can extend the life of visual memory significantly. When the production of the protein was boosted in mice, the rodents' visual memory retention increased, from about an hour to almost 2 months.
"Unlike the long-term memory creation that was imaged recently, this memory extension only applies to memories made through the poorly-understood visual cortex of the brain."
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