Posted on 08/09/2019 9:17:28 PM PDT by bitt
University of Washington Health Sciences/UW Medicine Summary: A team of scientists have invented a device that can control neural circuits using a tiny brain implant controlled by a smartphone. The device could speed up efforts to uncover brain diseases such as Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, addiction, depression, and pain.
A team of scientists in Korea and the United States have invented a device that can control neural circuits using a tiny brain implant controlled by a smartphone.
Researchers, publishing in Nature Biomedical Engineering, believe the device can speed up efforts to uncover brain diseases such as Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, addiction, depression, and pain.
The device, using Lego-like replaceable drug cartridges and powerful bluetooth low-energy, can target specific neurons of interest using drug and light for prolonged periods.
"The wireless neural device enables chronic chemical and optical neuromodulation that has never been achieved before," said lead author Raza Qazi, a researcher with the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and University of Colorado Boulder.
Qazi said this technology significantly overshadows conventional methods used by neuroscientists, which usually involve rigid metal tubes and optical fibers to deliver drugs and light. Apart from limiting the subject's movement due to the physical connections with bulky equipment, their relatively rigid structure causes lesion in soft brain tissue over time, therefore making them not suitable for long-term implantation. Though some efforts have been put to partly mitigate adverse tissue response by incorporating soft probes and wireless platforms, the previous solutions were limited by their inability to deliver drugs for long periods of time as well as their bulky and complex control setups.
To achieve chronic wireless drug delivery, scientists had to solve the critical challenge of exhaustion and evaporation of drugs. Researchers from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology and the University of Washington in
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They’re way behind the curve. Smartphones have been manipulating Millennials’ brain cells for years now.
Erm....Bob...ah...hold off on that smart phone for now, eh?
Well I don’t understand all the jargon well but I got misfiring neurons that cause twitches and tingling from an old head injury.
Thank God there is no muscle damage but it’s uncomfortable and 12 years is enough.
If they could modulate something like that to keep neurons from firing wrongly, that would be great.
Either that or they’ll use it for nefarious purposes in some intelligence agency in some country.
And haven’t drug pushers been manipulating brain cells for some time now, also?
Next, the NFL and it’s concussions - - -
...but we can't promise that it'll never be used in a nefarious manner. We just developed the technology. What others do with the technology after that isn't our concern.
Not an entirely accurate title (not you who posted this) but this control REQUIRES A SURGICAL IMPLANT to work.
Not a phone.
This would explain the Apple fanboyz syndrome.
damn it!
wait.
Just red Dean Kootz’s Novel Whispering Room where Jane Hawk battles against people with injected neural networks controlling their brains.
The movie “Telefon” from 1977 with Charles Bronson.
Started on Koontz with “midnight” read it in one night.
I got me started on reading again and now I get lost in books.
I will have to get that one from the library, thank you!
I can see the Ads now.
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Apparently the authors of the study have never met my coworkers. /jk
Very very bad idea. One day they’ll force everyone to have a neural implant that is connected to their smart phone which sends your brain waves to Central Computer for analysis. Yes they will. Know what China is doing now? Elect democrats and it will happen here.
It is happening here already.
Balloons in the air that will monitor every move we make that is not monitored by cell phone?
Under the pretense of drug interdiction?
OK, rn. ;^) As I posted last night, I am in no real danger; to analyze my brain just read the ingredients on a jug of water!
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