It is called Restoring Active Memory (RAM) and is the latest project developed by DARPA, the agency for advanced US defense research projects, for the creation of an implantable neural interface able to restore lost memories in subjects with traumatic brain injury.
They write from DARPA: “traumatic brain injuries affect 1,7 millions of civilians every year and military 270.000 surveyed by the 2000. Brain injuries have been shown to alter the ability to recover memories created before suffering the trauma, limiting the subsequent ability to form new ones ”.
With the RAM program, DARPA intends to "fill the gaps created in the brain". The memory restoration program is part of the broader BRAIN project, strongly supported by the Obama administration.
DARPA hopes to create a multi-scale calculation model that can describe "the memory source code".
The next step of DARPA will be to create a neural interface with the ability to fill "the gaps in memory flow in the brain after a traumatic injury". The implant would stimulate the brain to help restore its ability to create new memories.
Military tests began last September. In a few months the testing phase will also extend to civilian volunteers.
