Researchers Create Short-term Memories In Rat Brains 114
An anonymous reader writes "Researchers say they've found a way to store artificial short-term memories in isolated brain tissue. 'This is the first time anyone has found a way to store information over seconds about both temporal sequences and stimulus patterns directly in brain tissue,' says the study's lead. 'This paves the way for future research to identify the specific brain circuits that allow us to form short-term memories.' The peer-reviewed study can be found here (paywalled)."
Hyperthymesia (Score:3, Informative)
Sounds like you might have a case of Hyperthymesia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperthymestic [wikipedia.org]
The actress Marilu Henner supposedly has this condition. She claims to remember every day of her life since age 11.
Its rare, but it happens and apparently it can be a exhausting and a burden on the person.
Re:Putting Tin Foil hat on.... (Score:5, Informative)
Actually, the plaque correlation is rather weak. Most like a soluble form of the protein do the damage, the plaques just being a precipitation of the soluble form., plaque removal do not correlate with reversal of the condition and plaque presence can be found in people with no notable cognitive decline.