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DARPA Program Seeks to Use Brain Implants to Control Mental Illness

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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/
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