Steve Ramirez: If We Could Erase Memories ... Should We?
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Friday, October 13, 2017
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Steve Ramirez with Xu Liu on the TED Stage
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Part 4 of the TED Radio Hour episode Manipulation.
About Steve Ramirez's TED Talk
Neuroscientist Steve Ramirez used lasers to enter the brains of mice and edit their memories. He imagines a future where this technology might be possible in humans as well.
About Steve Ramirez
Steve Ramirez is an assistant professor of neuroscience at Boston University. His work focuses on finding where single memories are located throughout the brain, genetically tricking the brain cells that house these memories to respond to brief pulses of light, and then using these same flickers of light to reactivate, erase, and implant memories.
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