A wireless brain implant allowing wounded soldiers to recover motor skills lost through head trauma is currently being looked at by a Pentagon agency that is soliciting proposals from private companies to research -- and potentially build --the technology. Bloomberg reports the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s RFP could also one day have wide-ranging consequence to the so-far, predominately stymied efforts to successfully treat the nearly 2 million Americans annually diagnosed with memory loss from such debilitating illnesses as Alzheimer’s disease. “The way human memory works is one of the great unsolved mysteries,” Andres Lozano, the University of Toronto’s chairman of neurosurgery, told Bloomberg.
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