[petuniasevan]

Here's my problem with the whole concept:

Don't you have to have working knowledge of an organ to fabricate a facsimile?

They admit that they don't know how the hippocampus encodes information. So they just copied the stimulus/impulse paths.

What if these paths vary normally? What if they alter under medication or stress?

I'm skeptical about this prosthesis.

(If it works I'd be thrilled. My uncle is institutionalized for severe Cerebral Palsy.)

[RightWhale]

Just a guess, but they might be working way too high in the CNS. Lower down things are more mechanical. If they can create a bypass for a severed spinal cord, that would be something.

[luckystarmom]

My daughter has cerebral palsy also. Well, I'm wondering if they can test it by seeing if the observed damage (muscle problems, etc) go away after the chip is implanted.

It's not something that I would subject my daughter to now, but hopefully in the next 20 years some promising help for victims of brain damage will occur.