CALL THSI 'BUSHLAND GUILTY CONSCIEUSNESS, AKA "WHAT ARE WE HIDING?"

 ( suggested to outlaw unethical practice - hallo Senhate you yet to
process
my former proposal; till you do , please take legislativfe feedback
from here;
I AM A RETURNEE FROM PENNSYVENIA; PLEASE RESPECT
THE FEEDBACK AND ME.
( CIA kidnapping mje can only be illegal)


Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times
André A. Fenton studies spatial memory in mice and rats.


Brain Power
The Speed-Dial Molecule
For all that scientists have studied it, the brain remains the most
complex and mysterious human organ — and, now, the focus of billions
of dollars’ worth of research to penetrate its secrets.


This is the first article in a series that will look in depth at some
of the insights these projects are producing.


Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times
Research by Dr. Todd C. Sacktor, above, and André A. Fenton has
demonstrated a chemical’s effect on memory with potential
implications
for treatment of trauma, addiction and other conditions.
Readers' Comments
If scientists succeed in creating a drug to erase memories, to whom
should it be available?
Post a Comment ťRead All Comments (159) ťResearchers in Brooklyn have
recently accomplished comparable feats, with a single dose of an
experimental drug delivered to areas of the brain critical for
holding
specific types of memory, like emotional associations, spatial
knowledge or motor skills.


The drug blocks the activity of a substance that the brain apparently
needs to retain much of its learned information. And if enhanced, the
substance could help ward off dementias and other memory problems.


So far, the research has been done only on animals. But scientists
say
this memory system is likely to work almost identically in people.


The discovery of such an apparently critical memory molecule, and its
many potential uses, are part of the buzz surrounding a field that,
in
just the past few years, has made the seemingly impossible suddenly
probable: neuroscience, the study of the brain.


“If this molecule is as important as it appears to be, you can see
the
possible implications,” said Dr. Todd C. Sacktor, a 52-year-old
neuroscientist who leads the team at the SUNY Downstate Medical
Center, in Brooklyn, which demonstrated its effect on memory. “For
trauma. For addiction, which is a learned behavior. Ultimately for
improving memory and learning.”


Artists and writers have led the exploration of identity,
consciousness and memory for centuries. Yet even as scientists sent
men to the moon and spacecraft to Saturn and submarines to the ocean
floor, the instrument responsible for such feats, the human mind,
remained almost entirely dark, a vast and mostly uncharted universe
as
mysterious as the New World was to explorers of the past.


Now neuroscience, a field that barely existed a generation ago, is
racing ahead, attracting billions of dollars in new financing and
throngs of researchers. The National Institutes of Health last year
spent $5.2 billion, nearly 20 percent of its total budget, on brain-
related projects, according to the Society for Neuroscience.


Endowments like the Wellcome Trust and the Kavli Foundation have
poured in hundreds of millions of dollars more, establishing
institutes at universities around the world, including Columbia and
Yale.


The influx of money, talent and technology means that scientists are
at last finding real answers about the brain — and raising questions,
both scientific and ethical, more quickly than anyone can answer
them.


Millions of people might be tempted to erase a severely painful
memory, for instance — but what if, in the process, they lost other,
personally important memories that were somehow related? Would a
treatment that “cleared” the learned habits of addiction only tempt
people to experiment more widely?


And perhaps even more important, when scientists find a drug to
strengthen memory, will everyone feel compelled to use it?


The stakes, and the wide-open opportunities possible in brain
science,
will only accelerate the pace of discovery.


“In this field we are merely at the foothills of an enormous mountain
range,” said Dr. Eric R. Kandel, a neuroscientist at Columbia, “and
unlike in other areas of science, it is still possible for an
individual or small group to make important contributions, without
any
great expenditure or some enormous lab.”


Dr. Sacktor is one of hundreds of researchers trying to answer a
question that has dumbfounded thinkers since the beginning of modern
inquiry: How on earth can a clump of tissue possibly capture and
store
everything — poems, emotional reactions, locations of favorite bars,
distant childhood scenes? The idea that experience leaves some trace
in the brain goes back at least to Plato’s Theaetetus metaphor of a
stamp on wax, and in 1904 the German scholar Richard Semon gave that
ghostly trace a name: the engram.


What could that engram actually be?

I REALLY THOUGHT THTA THEY ARE DEAD; IF THEY ARE NOT - THEY DO NOT
AFFECT ME;
THERE WAS ATTEMPT TO BRAINWASH PEOPLE WITH INSTALLING "ENGRAMS" -
THESE
ARE STATIC - THEY ARE NEV ER MOVING AS OUR DREAMS, DAY DREAMS AND PAST
 IMAGES WHEN AWAKE DO. IN  THIS INTEL CENTER THERE IS NO TROUBLE
 IN RECOGNIZING WHICH IS WHICH.

THE PRACTICE OF BRAINWASHING IS INHUMAN AND USELESS.


The answer, previous research suggests, is that brain cells activated
by an experience keep one another on biological speed-dial, like a
group of people joined in common witness of some striking event. Call
on one and word quickly goes out to the larger network of cells, each
apparently adding some detail, sight, sound, smell. The brain appears
to retain a memory by growing thicker, or more efficient,
communication lines between these cells. "


CALL THIS ONE INTERFACE MEMORY OR INTERACTIONAL MEMORY


( MEANING BETWEEN ANY ELEMENTS OF NATURE); I ALSO CALL IT
POWER LINES MEMORY, AND NASA CALLS IT NOT ALWAYS CONSITANTLY
 BEGINNING OF THE NATURALLY DEVELOPING ARTIFICAIL INTELLIGENCE CENTER

I proposed a lot more. Memory is both structured and not - like that
image of the American Eagle on the tree from 50 years ago in peoples
eyes ( true image that is). Some see it as harbinger - scientifically
it is memory
of the plaace in process. Do not panic - you did not do the image of
the alligator on the Mars
( image only - the lightb event too)