{"id":90513,"date":"2019-05-09T13:03:49","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T20:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/in-china-surgeons-are-treating-addiction-with-brain-implants"},"modified":"2019-05-09T13:03:49","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T20:03:49","slug":"in-china-surgeons-are-treating-addiction-with-brain-implants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/in-china-surgeons-are-treating-addiction-with-brain-implants","title":{"rendered":"In China, Surgeons Are Treating Addiction With Brain Implants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/in-china-surgeons-are-treating-addiction-with-brain-implants.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Deep brain stimulation (DBS), an experimental technology that involves implanting a pacemaker-like device in a patient\u2019s brain to send electrical impulses, is a hotly debated subject in the field of medicine. It\u2019s an inherently risky procedure and the exact effects on the human brain aren\u2019t yet fully understood.<\/p>\n<p>But some practitioners believe it could be a way to <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/deep-brain-stimulation-depression\">alleviate the symptoms of depression<\/a> or even help <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/dementia-deep-brain-stimulation\">treat Alzheimer\u2019s<\/a> \u2014 and now they suspect it could help with drug addiction as well.<\/p>\n<p>In a world\u2019s first, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/lifestyles\/health\/ct-experimental-surgery-opioid-deaths-20190508-story.html\">according to the <em>Associated Press<\/em><\/a>, a patient in Shanghai\u2019s Ruijin Hospital had a DBS device implanted in his brain to treat his addiction to methamphetamine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/china-deep-brain-stimulation-drug-addiction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deep brain stimulation (DBS), an experimental technology that involves implanting a pacemaker-like device in a patient\u2019s brain to send electrical impulses, is a hotly debated subject in the field of medicine. It\u2019s an inherently risky procedure and the exact effects on the human brain aren\u2019t yet fully understood. But some practitioners believe it could be [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90513","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\/90513","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}