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August 27, 2155

Medical Report entry

CC: Captain Moore, Cmdr. Cole

Subject: Development in memory holes

 

 

Upon further review of Sergio's brain functions, blood tests and scans, developments are in progress. As the evidence and support test results accumulate, the memory blockage is related to a suppression of a neurotransmitter released by nerve cells that resides in the brain, as stated in the last report.

 

The Hippocampus of Lt. Giovanni momentarily lacks the average potential charge generated. This could only mean that selective disruption of his memory network is occuring. As stated in the last report, the disruption is currently only limiting itself to the Hippocampus, but there is no certainty that it will not move. Upon further analysis of the field data, a cause to the disruption, or rather a theory, is being postulated.

 

Astrocytes, a type of gial cell in the brain that supports the main bi-polar neurons, being monitored in Lt. Giovanni's brain shows evidence of tampering, instead of releasing glutamate, a common amino acid, it is releasing ATP right away into the neurons. The result is misconnection. The purpose of glutamate between astrocytes and neurons is mainly communication and aid in memory, when ATP was secreted instead of glutamate, no communication in connection to memory was established, instead an nutrient requirement message was conveyed instead.

 

In addition to this problem, the enzyme that digests actylecholine, the neuro-transmitter, seem to be in higher concentration in the affected areas where the previous problems were. Evidence point in the direction that both of these conditions are related. As actylecholine is destroyed and recycled, it leaves the neurons with no tools of communication, Glutamate secretion from Astrocytes were used to signal the neurons to resupply the neurotransmitter. However, the previous problem prevents that.

 

Since memory is not limited to a few neurons in the Hippocampus, bits and pieces of images or impressions may have been experienced by him, as he described. More updates as the next data analysis is complete.