Coming soon: Brain implant to restore lost memory

Highly secretive military researchers in the US say that in the next few months they will unveil new advances towards developing a brain implant that could one day restore a wounded soldier’s memory.

The Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is forging ahead with a four-year plan to build a sophisticated memory stimulator, as part of president Barack Obama’s $100m (€72m) initiative to better understand the human brain.

The science has never been done before, and raises ethical questions about whether the human mind should be manipulated in the name of staving off war injuries or managing the aging brain.