{"id":72001,"date":"2017-08-19T17:22:22","date_gmt":"2017-08-20T00:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/scientists-remotely-hacked-a-brain-controlling-body-movements"},"modified":"2017-08-19T17:22:22","modified_gmt":"2017-08-20T00:22:22","slug":"scientists-remotely-hacked-a-brain-controlling-body-movements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/scientists-remotely-hacked-a-brain-controlling-body-movements","title":{"rendered":"Scientists remotely hacked a brain, controlling body movements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-remotely-hacked-a-brain-controlling-body-movements.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Imagine someone remotely controlling your brain, forcing your body\u2019s central processing organ to send messages to your muscles that you didn\u2019t authorize. It\u2019s an incredibly scary thought, but scientists have managed to accomplish this science fiction nightmare for real, albeit on a much small scale, and they were even able to prompt their test subject to run, freeze in place, or even completely lose control over their limbs. Thankfully, the research will be used for good rather than evil\u2026 for now.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Don\u2019t Miss : <\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/bgr.com\/2017\/08\/17\/comcast-xfinity-mobile-review-vs-verizon\/\">Comcast\u2019s surprisingly good wireless plans now available nationwide<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The effort, led by physics professor Arnd Pralle, PhD, of the University at Buffalo College of Arts and Sciences, focused on a technique called \u201cmagneto-thermal stimulation.\u201d It\u2019s not exactly a simple process \u2014 it requires the implantation of specially built DNA strands and nanoparticles which attach to specific neurons \u2014 but once the minimally invasive procedure is over, the brain can be remotely controlled via an alternating magnetic field. When those magnetic inputs are applied, the particles heat up, causing the neurons to fire.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/bgr.com\/2017\/08\/18\/brain-hack-science-limb-control\/\">https:\/\/bgr.com\/2017\/08\/18\/brain-hack-science-limb-control\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine someone remotely controlling your brain, forcing your body\u2019s central processing organ to send messages to your muscles that you didn\u2019t authorize. It\u2019s an incredibly scary thought, but scientists have managed to accomplish this science fiction nightmare for real, albeit on a much small scale, and they were even able to prompt their test subject [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-nanotechnology","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72001","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}