Nice. But isn’t this a little like putting a piece of electrical tape over your ‘check engine light’?
Maybe - but with some diseases there’s no need to check the engine. There’s no way to fix the engine.
Depends, as you allude to pain is sometimes useful. In chronic cases its extremely debilitating and the treatment for pain is worse than the disease. For people with cancer, severe back injury and some of the other problems this could but huge.
Some people have problems where their brain registers pain but there isn’t an underlying cause.
pain only represents the bodies interpretation of something.....which is why some people can have lots of pain and still continue to work, etc, while others can’t function....
Seriously, with all of the zombie scenarios that will come from this, I hope that scientists will use this to help chronic pain sufferers and ease the abuse of pain meds by people.
I thought that too. The really on true application should be toward something like a terminal cancer patient.