Join the club for FREE to access the whole archive and other member benefits.

Military tests brain implants that change your mood

27-Nov-2017

Key points from article :

DARPA is funding research into "mind control" chips.

Closed loop brain implants use artificial intelligence to detect mood disorders.

Electric shocks automatically jolt a person's brain back to a healthy state.

Shocks can also improve performance in some tasks.

Already tested on 6 patients with epilepsy.

Ethical concerns that technology exposes person's inner feelings.

The study was published in the Nature journal.

Mentioned in this article:

Click on resource name for more details.

DARPA

US government agency called Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

Edward Chang

Neurosurgeon at UC San Francisco.

Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)

Largest teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School located in Boston

Nature

Scientific journal covering research from a variety of academic disciplines, mostly in science and technology

University of California

Public research university with 10 campuses and 5 medical centres

Topics mentioned on this page:
Brain Interface