{"id":12268,"date":"2014-09-13T09:00:09","date_gmt":"2014-09-13T16:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=12268"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:12:17","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:12:17","slug":"neuromodulation-2-0-new-developments-in-brain-implants-super-soldiers-and-the-treatment-of-chronic-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/neuromodulation-2-0-new-developments-in-brain-implants-super-soldiers-and-the-treatment-of-chronic-disease","title":{"rendered":"Neuromodulation 2.0: New Developments in Brain Implants, Super Soldiers and the Treatment of Chronic Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Written By: <a title=\"Posts by Steven Kotler\" href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/author\/skotler\/\" rel=\"author\">Steven Kotler<\/a> \u2014 Sigularity Hub<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Brain implants here we come.<\/p>\n<p>DARPA just announced the ElectRX program, a $78.9 million attempt to develop miniscule electronic devices that interface directly with the nervous system in the hopes of curing a bunch of chronic conditions, ranging from the psychological (depression, PTSD) to the physical (Crohn\u2019s, arthritis). Of course, the big goal here is to usher in a revolution in neuromodulation\u2014that is, the science of modulating the nervous system to fix an underlying problem.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2014\/09\/03\/neuromodulation-2-0-new-developments-in-brain-implants-super-soldiers-and-the-treatment-of-chronic-disease\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written By: Steven Kotler \u2014 Sigularity Hub Brain implants here we come. DARPA just announced the ElectRX program, a $78.9 million attempt to develop miniscule electronic devices that interface directly with the nervous system in the hopes of curing a bunch of chronic conditions, ranging from the psychological (depression, PTSD) to the physical (Crohn\u2019s, arthritis). [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,14,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-defense","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12268","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=12268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46884,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12268\/revisions\/46884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}