{"id":111502,"date":"2020-08-17T18:26:34","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T01:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/how-scientists-influenced-monkeys-decisions-using-ultrasound-in-their-brains"},"modified":"2020-08-17T18:26:34","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T01:26:34","slug":"how-scientists-influenced-monkeys-decisions-using-ultrasound-in-their-brains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/how-scientists-influenced-monkeys-decisions-using-ultrasound-in-their-brains","title":{"rendered":"How Scientists Influenced Monkeys\u2019 Decisions Using Ultrasound in Their Brains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-scientists-influenced-monkeys-decisions-using-ultrasound-in-their-brains2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>A Sound Treatment<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Ultrasound is an oddball in the neuromodulation world. Similar to its better-known siblings, such as transcranial direct current stimulation (tDSC) or transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), ultrasound changes how neurons fire, which in turn changes their computational output\u2014what we observe as learning, memory, and other behaviors. This idea, dubbed neuromodulation, has taken the neurological world by storm for its near \u201cmagical\u201d efficacy for treating people with depression who don\u2019t respond to antidepressants, or people with Parkinson\u2019s disease whose movement patterns are severely disrupted.<\/p>\n<p>Compared to first-generation neuromodulation, where the brain-tweaking gadget is surgically implanted into the brain, ultrasound offers a way to \u201chack\u201d neural firings from the outside. In a way, the technology uses sound waves to mechanically \u201cshake\u201d the neurons in a circuit back into sequence, so they function in sync as needed and control subsequent outputs like learning, thinking, memory, and decision-making.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Sound Treatment Ultrasound is an oddball in the neuromodulation world. Similar to its better-known siblings, such as transcranial direct current stimulation (tDSC) or transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), ultrasound changes how neurons fire, which in turn changes their computational output\u2014what we observe as learning, memory, and other behaviors. This idea, dubbed neuromodulation, has taken the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}