This may be a bit.. off-topic for HN: But this article sounds like it's describing a very primitive version of the memory manipulation technology featured prominently in the TV show Dollhouse. I always find it fascinating when science fiction begins to intersect with reality.
I one read from a satirist that it is hard to be satirical about the future since it keeps coming true. :)
Seriously, though, if one were to enter into a neuroscience md/phd program now in the 8 years or so when they finish the technology might be more commercializable.
