{"id":204195,"date":"2025-01-21T10:29:55","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T16:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/brain-implant-that-could-boost-mood-by-using-ultrasound-to-go-under-nhs-trial"},"modified":"2025-01-21T10:29:55","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T16:29:55","slug":"brain-implant-that-could-boost-mood-by-using-ultrasound-to-go-under-nhs-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/brain-implant-that-could-boost-mood-by-using-ultrasound-to-go-under-nhs-trial","title":{"rendered":"Brain implant that could boost mood by using ultrasound to go under NHS trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/brain-implant-that-could-boost-mood-by-using-ultrasound-to-go-under-nhs-trial2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In future, doctors hope the technology could revolutionise the treatment of conditions such as depression, addiction, OCD and epilepsy by rebalancing disrupted patterns of brain activity.<\/p>\n<p>Jacques Carolan, Aria\u2019s programme director, said: \u201cNeurotechnologies can help a much broader range of people than we thought. Helping with treatment resistant depression, epilepsy, addiction, eating disorders, that is the huge opportunity here. We are at a turning point in both the conditions we hope we can treat and the new types of technologies emerging to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The trial follows rapid advances in brain-computer-interface (BCI) technology, with Elon Musk\u2019s company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/article\/2024\/aug\/04\/neuralink-elon-musk-second-trial-patient-brain-chip\">Neuralink launching a clinical trial in paralysis patients last year<\/a> and another study restoring communication to stroke patients by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2023\/aug\/23\/paralysed-woman-able-to-speak-through-digital-avatar-for-first-time\">translating their thoughts directly into speech<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In future, doctors hope the technology could revolutionise the treatment of conditions such as depression, addiction, OCD and epilepsy by rebalancing disrupted patterns of brain activity. Jacques Carolan, Aria\u2019s programme director, said: \u201cNeurotechnologies can help a much broader range of people than we thought. Helping with treatment resistant depression, epilepsy, addiction, eating disorders, that is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,2019,1506,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-elon-musk","category-food","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204195","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}