{"id":70304,"date":"2017-06-08T09:24:32","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T16:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/therapeutic-mind-control-worked-in-rats-are-humans-next"},"modified":"2017-06-08T09:24:32","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T16:24:32","slug":"therapeutic-mind-control-worked-in-rats-are-humans-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/therapeutic-mind-control-worked-in-rats-are-humans-next","title":{"rendered":"Therapeutic Mind Control Worked In Rats. Are Humans Next?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/therapeutic-mind-control-worked-in-rats-are-humans-next2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>B rain surgery is one of the most delicate, invasive procedures in medicine. Many times, anesthesia is not involved; sometimes, an electrode is inserted into the brain for deep brain stimulation.<\/p>\n<p>Research published Thursday in the journal <em>Cell<\/em> promises a safer alternative to these otherwise intrusive ways to get in your head: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cell.com\/cell\/fulltext\/S0092-86741730584-6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stimulating neurons deep in the brain without any invasive procedures<\/a>. The procedure, called temporal interference stimulation, is the latest invention of MIT neuroscientist and engineer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/8052-breakthrough-prize-winner-edward-s-boyden-on-science-celebs-our-brains-and-3-million\">Edward Boyden<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBrief stimulation of the brain can actually cause the brain to clean up the amyloid plaques that are a hallmark of Alzheimer\u2019s Disease,\u201d Boyden tells <em>Inverse<\/em>. He feels that his new technology can help with a number of neurological conditions without many of the hazards inherent to invasive techniques.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/32355-temporal-interference-stimulation-edward-boyden-surgery\">https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/32355-temporal-interference-...en-surgery<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B rain surgery is one of the most delicate, invasive procedures in medicine. Many times, anesthesia is not involved; sometimes, an electrode is inserted into the brain for deep brain stimulation. Research published Thursday in the journal Cell promises a safer alternative to these otherwise intrusive ways to get in your head: stimulating neurons deep [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":409,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70304","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\/70304","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\/409"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}