Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex [Dive Active] Glossary: Cyberbrain Sclerosis |
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| Following the progression of tuberculosis in the 19th century, cancer in the 20th century, and HIV at the end of the millennium as diseases that signified certain death, cyberbrain sclerosis was the next such illness at the beginning of the new century. | ||
| In terms of specific symptoms, slight memory loss is the disease's preliminary warning sign. As the illness worsens, symptoms include a deterioration of speaking abilitity, incompatibility with external memory storage units, and severe memory deficiency. Eventually, those afflicted will face brain death, or so it was thought. While it was possible to delay the symptoms' progress with appropriate treatmeant, it was believed that sclerosis itself could not be cured, causing a momentary yet considerable panic within the cyberbrain-implanted population when the disease's existence was first disclosed to the public. | ||
| Currently, there is no approved cure for cyberbrain sclerosis, although there has been progress using micromachines. | ||
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