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Neuromodulation
In "The Headache," Tom Zeller Jr. explores one of the human brain's most enduring, and painful, enigmas.
“Neurotech is not just about the brain,” says Synchron CTO Riki Banerjee, explaining how their tech can help with paralysis, brain diseases, and beyond.
For people with hard-to-treat depression, a non-invasive technique called transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) can provide relief.
But don't buy your own brain zapping machine, yet.
Long thought incapable of regenerating, we now know that brain cells can grow and reorganize. That, it turns out, is a mixed blessing.
It’s not a huge leap to imagine we could target the biological processes that mediate our behaviours.
“At that time, it was just a wild idea, [...] that instead of just a loss of consciousness, anesthetics may do something to the brain that actually turns pain off.”
OCD and addiction may result in part from improper “reward” pathways in the brain. Ultrasound can disrupt those pathways.