golden gate to the brain's memory mainframe

Electric shocks to brain may boost memory: Study
By
Monica DyBuncio

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504763_162-57373857-10391704/electric-shocks-to-brain-may-boost-memory-study/

This new study shows that it may actually be possible to give your brain a jolt. The study had patients with epilepsy play a video game where they had to remember the location of certain stores in the game, they had small electrodes implanted in their brains to help deal with seizures, and the results showed that they remembered where to go better after getting a shock from the electrodes. When the electrodes went off they stimulated a “brain site called the entorhinal cortex, considered the doorway to the hippocampus - which helps form and store memories.”
The entorhinal cortex is like the “golden gate to the brain's memory mainframe.” When the entorhinal cortex was stimulated by the electrodes the patients showed that they recognized landmarks better and could navigate to the stores easier, they also started taking shortcuts, showing that their spatial memory increased as well.
This could help many people with memory problems function easier and maybe even help find a cure for Alzheimer’s disease, or at least help people deal with it better.