{"id":11615,"date":"2014-06-23T21:40:03","date_gmt":"2014-06-24T04:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=11615"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:14:15","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:14:15","slug":"massive-military-funded-project-aims-to-re-align-ailing-brains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/massive-military-funded-project-aims-to-re-align-ailing-brains","title":{"rendered":"Massive Military-Funded Project Aims to Re-align Ailing Brains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Posts by Cameron Scott\" href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/author\/cscott\/\" rel=\"author\">Cameron Scott<\/a> \u2014 Singularity Hub<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Deep brain stimulation as a treatment for <a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2013\/11\/27\/fda-approves-brain-implant-to-monitor-and-autonomously-respond-to-epileptic-seizures\/\">epilepsy<\/a> and movement disorders, most notably <a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2013\/02\/23\/deep-brain-stimulation-used-to-treat-early-stage-parkinsons-disease\/\">Parkinson\u2019s disease<\/a>, has rapidly gone from experimental to standard practice. With devices to provide delicate electro-stimulation to the brain now available and with maps of which neurons do what steadily <a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2013\/07\/17\/new-3d-brain-map-50-times-more-detailed-than-previous-maps\/\">gaining detail<\/a>, attention is now <a href=\"http:\/\/biomed.brown.edu\/Courses\/BI108\/BI108_2008_Groups\/group07\/Depression.html#app\">shifting<\/a> to using the approach to treat mental illness.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2014\/06\/20\/massive-military-funded-project-will-attempt-to-re-set-ailing-brains\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cameron Scott \u2014 Singularity Hub Deep brain stimulation as a treatment for epilepsy and movement disorders, most notably Parkinson\u2019s disease, has rapidly gone from experimental to standard practice. With devices to provide delicate electro-stimulation to the brain now available and with maps of which neurons do what steadily gaining detail, attention is now shifting to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,9,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-military","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11615","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\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47027,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11615\/revisions\/47027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}