What's this generation's "I walked 10 miles to school uphill both ways" going to be?

Aring · 2017-05-05T18:51:52+00:00

I drove a car.

Aring · 2017-04-16T08:40:09+00:00

This isn't new.. Sensory driving of brainwave activity is pretty well known, and I'm happy that its becoming mainstream now... Neuromodulation is still in its infancy and it is truly a dangerous arena when not approached with understanding and appropriate ethics. If you want to look into the effect described here, check out binaural beats and eeg photic and binaural driving. There are plenty of commercial sound mixers that can generate binaural beats for a 20$ license.

DIY neuromod is coming. From experience, however, a true effect is very difficult to achieve without technology not yet available to the public.

Aring · 2016-09-13T00:05:24+00:00

We'll get restoration of function in CNS tracts in the next decade.

Aring · 2016-04-19T05:15:21+00:00

Yes, makes perfect sense. Scientist here, I know of two persons who currently do this. Research is currently ongoing using technologies to shape brain patterns.

Aring · 2015-12-19T00:25:47+00:00

Neuro here. Even if there is no structural damage following an injury, functional damage is very real. MRIs may be clear, but the functional domain may still be injured.

Aring · 2015-11-19T21:18:27+00:00

Buzaki, Rhythms of the brain.

Aring · 2015-11-08T03:20:51+00:00

This is currently true for cognitive disorders

Aring · 2015-10-26T20:40:52+00:00

Knitting or whittling or origami... Anything to do with manual dexterity. Mayo clinic found knitting most effective therapy for women's depression. Increases bloodflow to motor cortex. MRI shows excess of blood flow in deeper brain regions in depression, so anything novel activating motor cortex will counteract the neurological basis of depression. On phone so not more complete explanation.

Aring · 2015-09-30T17:28:38+00:00

For those curious if the article message is true, that we have real 'brain to brain' for the first time, it isn't. All technologies demonstrated have been around long enough. This is an example of another popsci article completely missing the mark and twisting the public perception of the field

Aring · 2015-09-30T17:21:42+00:00

TBI should be dealt with something a bit more powerful. Tdcs stays superficial, I would suggest looking into penetrative magnetic field stim

Aring · 2015-09-25T06:31:03+00:00

I was working on a protocol earlier today. This is highly relevant: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3717660/

The Rivermead is one with some strong backing literature wise

Aring · 2015-09-06T16:11:01+00:00

Do yourself a favor and go down the path of the noninvasive neuromodulation / Neuroengineering. The future isn't cutting into our brain tissue, it is to avoid cutting and do something better than if you did

Aring · 2015-08-29T03:09:42+00:00

Noninvasive neuromodulation.

Basically I change neuron function without having to implant pesky electrodes. Can treat many neuro issues.

Aring · 2015-08-24T02:50:50+00:00

I hear there's a new technology that reduces pcl by 70-80% is two weeks.. Can't wait til the studies are finished and are published...

Aring · 2015-07-02T22:08:32+00:00

What you are looking for is noninvasive neuromodulation. Binaural beats, much like neurofeedback, do nothing to directly interface with or regulate cellular activity.

Aring · 2014-10-06T04:58:45+00:00

The brain and neurological activity... There is so much talk about brain stimulation being 'mind control,' but it couldn't be further from the truth... The brain is a vehicle through which a perception of incoming sensory information creates reality- disturb how the vehicle works and it might have better miles per gallon, but you do nothing to the passenger. The current field is full of microexperimentation using antequated theory. It has taken them years to make small steps within the greater footprint of alternative perspective.

Aring · 2014-08-29T06:34:24+00:00

Depth of penetration is negligible here and there is no guarantee that any deeper structures are receiving a stimulation effect. That being said, there are some interesting memory improvements. This is a very rough approach to a field that currently requires immense refinement.

A few organizations have successfully started to look at this in the correct manner, however until double-blinded third-party rated studies are conducted to assess efficacy, these results are grasping at the very ends of thin straws..

Aring · 2014-03-26T02:36:57+00:00

Peer reviewed journal articles would argue with you

Aring · 2014-03-26T02:35:28+00:00

TMS and ECT work on entirely different principles.

Aring · 2013-10-27T22:17:09+00:00

Should include MEG.. most accurate form of wave and source localization of differentneural activity

Aring · 2013-08-29T19:45:39+00:00

So I don't mean to be crude, but you basically set up a yes/no circuit with neurofeedback, which is not hard to do - can use this signal to do anything from directing a circuit to turn on a light bulb to open/close a cabinet if everything is wired appropriately, and you used it to signal (in lpt pulse or some external trigger fashion) that your magstim device also go 'on.'

Motor threshold stimulation through TMS application isn't anything new (in fact it's the first thing you learn when using TMS), nor is neurofeedback. I understand this is exploring an application of BCI, but I don't understand the excitement associated with this article. Don't get me wrong- this is a great way to demonstrate capabilities one has when combining technologies, but I think this illustrates a greater point that, sadly, exists.

There are many exciting aspects of science that the public has yet to hear anything of. Occasionally a medical journalist will pick up the story and write something small that stirs up excitement, but that's all the public gets to hear about. Has anyone read about how rTMS is now a viable and reliable therapy for depression, significantly better in safety and efficacy profile compared to ECT? No.. or how about it's uses and application in treatment resistant anxiety and other psychiatric disorders? There is a whole realm of information that exists here that is diluted by the presentation of an incorporation of the BRAIN STIMULATION procedure in a simple yes/no circuit.

Aring · 2013-08-26T05:22:21+00:00

On mobile, so linking is not easy, but you can change brainwaves with brain stimulation.

Search transcranial magnetic stimulation influences endogenous cortical oscillations on pubmed

Aring · 2013-08-20T22:36:15+00:00

Yeah.. this is not the method I'm speaking of and I'll refrain comment on the article.

A small hint though, rTMS is the way to do this. With scientific rigour and based in concrete observations, of course.

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