FDA approved magnetic brain stimulation for depression!!!!!!

[Louie62]

Why don't we go the whole hog and stimulate the pleasure receptors in the brain directly????

Trickle an electric current gently and BINGO!!!!!!

Jesus, who'd have thought that Larry Niven was actually on to something...........

[johnjohn]

There is a therapy called deep brain stimulation that has been used to treat some neurlogical disorders plus depression where electrodes are placed directly into the brain. I read about it on the thinking meat website. check it out.

[htsamurai]

i can almost see this in the cyberpunk thread at some point...

[dorfmeister]

Shakti Neuromagnetic Signal Generator

http://www.shaktitechnology.com/winshakti/index.htm

[Antero]

This is interesting, though it does smack of the sort of old-fashioned miracles-of-technology frenzy that led to stuff like radiation therapy.

[FuzzHugger]

I'd take one of those for a whirl! But for all the wrong reasons. Sounds fun!