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| From | "tdk" <forum.tdk@squte.com> |
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| Subject | DARPA Program Seeks to Use Brain Implants to Control Mental Illness |
| Date | Sun, 1 Jun 2014 14:20:41 -0500 |
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From the "already under your tinfoil hat" dept. MIT technology review reports [1] on a military funded $70 million program to try to develop brain implants able to regulate emotions in the mentally ill. >Researcher Jose Carmena has worked for years training macaque monkeys to >move computer cursors and robotic limbs with their minds. He does so by >implanting electrodes into their brains to monitor neural activity. Now, as >part of a sweeping $70 million program funded by the U.S. military, Carmena >has a new goal: to use brain implants to read, and then control, the >emotions of mentally ill people. > >This week the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, awarded >two large contracts to Massachusetts General Hospital and the University of >California, San Francisco, to create electrical brain implants capable of >treating seven psychiatric conditions, including addiction, depression, and >borderline personality disorder. There couldn't possibly be any other use for this technology, could there? [1] http://www.technologyreview.com/news/527561/military-funds-brain-computer-interfaces-to-control-feelings/ -- regards ~tdk View this thread at http://squte.com/node/6236
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