Memory Functions and EMF: Learning from Gyorgy Buzsaki and many others

EMF, Memory and Alzheimer's Risk>

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Some Mechanisms for Dysfunction

Changes in neurotransmitter balance
Alterations in brain rhythms
Effects on brain magnetite particles
Interference with sleep architecture
Calcium displacement from membranes
Genetic alteration toward inflammation
Forced entrainment
Free radical damage to structures
Interactions of toxins and EMF
Thermal effects
Loss of hippocampal cells

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Memory and Electromagnetic Fields

Dr. Buzsaki, in his book on brain rhythms, describes memory in terms of neuronal dialogue. The hippocampus (a part of the brain not far from the ear) acquires, processes and stores memories by "talking" to the sensory and thinking parts of the brain in a language of oscillations/rhythms. The memories are encoded as specific sequences of oscillatory patterns inside the hippocampus; a specific memory gets its own space/time sequence "code". Looking at the same phenomena from a different perspective, Dr. Banaclocha discusses memory functions as electromagnetic communication involving brain magnetite in several papers.

Of course, the structures (neurons and supporting cells, blood vessels, etc.) must be intact and the chemistry (neurotransmitters, nutrients, etc.) must be available in optimal amounts. Normal sleep patterns are required for adequate memory consolidation.

EMF can impact memory functions in different ways -- by altering oscillatory functions and membrane potentials, changing the environment that magnetite "senses", affecting sleep cycles, damaging structures or altering the physiologic milieux. This map provides a very superficial introduction to some of the potential mechanisms of impact and offers links to some studies which support them.