DARPA is testing implanting chips in soldiers’ brains

Fusion ^ | 09/27/15 | Kristen V. Brown

[Enlightened1]

For decades, DARPA, the secretive research arm of the Department of Defense, has dreamed of turning soldiers into cyborgs. And now it’s finally happening. The agency has funded projects that involve implanting chips into soldiers’ brains that could one day enhance performance on the battlefield and repair traumatized brains once the fog of war has lifted.

“Of the 2.5 million Americans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, 300,000 of them came home with traumatic brain injury,” journalist Annie Jacobsen told NPR. “DARPA initiated a series of programs to help cognitive functioning, to repair some of this damage. And those programs center around putting brain chips inside the tissue of the brain.”

In her new book about the history of DARPA, “The Pentagon’s Brain,” Jacobsen writes about DARPA’s “classified brain programs.” Scientists, she says, are already testing “implantable wireless ‘neuroprosthetics'” to help soldiers with brain injuries. “[S]oldiers allow the tiny machines, or chips, to be implanted in their brain,” Jacobsen writes in the book. “Despite multiple appeals through the Office of the Secretary of Defense, DARPA declined to grant me an interview with any of these brain-wounded warriors.”

[dp0622]

As a head injury survivor, I am a little excited about this for our brain injured troops.

Biggest medical breakthroughs sometimes come from military.

Maybe implants could help the brain injured sleep better, control pain better, enhance cognitive issues for the better, help the vestibular system deal with dizziness and tinnitus and lots of other things.

[Enlightened1]

Here is what I know,

Every fancy computer, phone, device, chip, etc...,

ALWAYS have Trojan Horses in them, back doors, etc...

Let’s hope it’s not used to shut down our veterans, when their health care costs, PTSD gets a little too expensive for Obamacare.

Not too long ago I would have dismissed comments like the one above. En-light of the harvesting of babies, keeping them alive as long as possible for maximum profit, to harvest the living organ.... Let me just say I don’t easily dismiss things anymore.

[dp0622]

This could be used to do so much good for the wounded but human nature always gets in the way.

[If You Want It Fixed - Fix It]

Like a pacemaker for the brain....

[dp0622]

Absolutely. I swear I can feel the nerves on the top of my head going insane at times through my scalp.

It’s like they lost their rhythm and that affects sleep, thinking, pain stimuli.

An smoothing out of the nerve signals would help alot, I think.

Xanax is used because it attaches to GABA receptors which slow down the nervous system and helps for a little while.

But of course the body gets used to it SO quickly, and that’s that.

[mlizzy]

NEGATIVE!! .. =) .. I suffer tinnitus like crazy in two deaf ears [one completely, the other at 5% ability], but I’ll be ****** if I would ever accept any “brain chip” from the government. Talk about Revelation.... oy vey!

However, if this would actually aid a veteran, who am I to say one way or another? I just couldn’t do it myself.