> New research detects brain cell that improves learning when impaired

Way more fun. Instead of improving the cells it could be that we will impair them in some way to improve our learning ability.

I see some similarities with autistic people. Usually, they're impaired and/or had brain damages in the past. This brain damage can be considered one of the reasons why some autistic people - aspergers - are able to learn much faster than others (one of the reasons is the restructuring of neurons after the accident which leads to better learning ability).