{"id":87659,"date":"2019-02-11T23:22:24","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T07:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/brain-zapping-implants-that-change-mood-and-lift-depression"},"modified":"2019-02-11T23:22:24","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T07:22:24","slug":"brain-zapping-implants-that-change-mood-and-lift-depression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/brain-zapping-implants-that-change-mood-and-lift-depression","title":{"rendered":"Brain-zapping implants that change mood and lift depression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T4vyhOz3XD4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Teams of researchers are developing sesame seed-size neuro-implants that detect brain activity that signals depression and then deliver targeted electrical zaps to elevate your mood. It\u2019s very early days in the science and technology but recent studies suggest that we\u2019re on the path. Links to scientific papers below. Fortunately, the goal is to develop tools and a methodology more precise than the horrifically blunt \u201cshock therapy\u201d of last century. From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/article\/brain-electric-implants-treat-depression-closer-reality\">Science News<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/boingboing.net\/2019\/02\/11\/brain-zapping-implants-that-ch.html\">https:\/\/boingboing.net\/2019\/02\/11\/brain-zapping-implants-that-ch.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teams of researchers are developing sesame seed-size neuro-implants that detect brain activity that signals depression and then deliver targeted electrical zaps to elevate your mood. It\u2019s very early days in the science and technology but recent studies suggest that we\u2019re on the path. Links to scientific papers below. Fortunately, the goal is to develop tools [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87659","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}