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Much research on the human brain is focused on understanding how people form memories, store them and retrieve them. Now, a study by scientists at the University of California-Davis and the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston is providing new insight into the process. Researchers at the two schools found that separate areas of the brain coordinate much like little radio stations -- to form memories involving time and space. In Memorial-Hermann hospital at the University of Texas Medical Center in Houston, Neurosurgeon Nitin Tandon visits 26-year-old epilepsy patient Tyler. Dr. Tandon has placed platinum electrodes on the surface of Tyler's brain so that he can monitor electrical signals when Tyler is having a seizure. "Before we can even understand how we would come up with prosthetic devices that we may be able to use to supplant certain brain functions that have been lost, we have to model those and understand those at a computational level," Tandon said. Since such studies contribute to the understanding of epilepsy, Tyler is a willing participant. "I think the more education there is about it, the better off the rest of the people will be," Tyler said. Patients like Tyler have also contributed to a study of how the brain forms memories of events in terms of time and space. “It has been a puzzle how the brain communicates both with the "where" and the "when" areas,” Tandon said. | 
