Posted on 07/01/2015 12:03:19 PM PDT by Lazamataz
The mouse walked, the mouse stopped; the mouse ignored a bowl of food, then scampered back and gobbled it up, and it was all controlled by neuroscientists, researchers reported on Thursday.
The study, describing a way to manipulate a lab animal's brain circuitry accurately enough to turn behaviors both on and off, is the first to be published under President Barack Obama's 2013 BRAIN Initiative, which aims to advance neuroscience and develop therapies for brain disorders.
The point of the remote-control mouse is not to create an army of robo-rodents. Instead, neuroscientists hope to perfect a technique for identifying brain wiring underlying any behavior, and control that behavior by activating and deactivating neurons.
If scientists are able do that for the circuitry involved in psychiatric or neurological disorders, it may lead to therapies. That approach reflects a shift away from linking such illnesses to "chemical imbalances" in the brain, instead tracing them to miswiring and misfiring in neuronal circuits.
"This tool sharpens the cutting edge of research aimed at improving our understanding of brain circuit disorders, such as schizophrenia and addictive behaviors," said Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, which funded the $1 million study.
The technique used to control neurons is called DREADDs (designer receptors exclusively activated by designer drugs).
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
Psychologically-enforced loyalty. Psychopathic killers that you can switch on and off. Direct control of the opinions of the masses.
I love how they call the control neurons DREADDs. I mean, at least they are kind enough to tell us.
What could possibly go wrong?
“The study, describing a way to manipulate a lab animal’s brain circuitry accurately enough to turn behaviors both on and off”
Look on the bright side. We may have a cure for homosexuality.
(under control from the government)
.... why... absolutely... nothing... and .... you ... are .... a .....traitor.... for.....questioning... Obama......
I have a horrible feeling about everything he does.
BRAAAAIIIINNNSSSS....
No, he'd make us all forced-gays.
......So whatchya doin' Friday night.....?
The fact these technologies are coming tells me these are the end times. There's a point where God just says "ENOUGH."
Custom made Obama drones
More accurately:
President Barack Obama’s 2013 BRAIN Initiative, which aims to exploit neuroscience and develop methods for directly controlling every thought and every action of every person in the country (and then the world).
Did they get the idea from Jeffery Dahmer or Charles Manson?
You mean this isn’t what happened to our Manchurian Candidate?
I’m Stuned I tell ya.
You mean this isn’t what happened to our Manchurian Candidate?
I’m Stuned I tell ya.
They’re pinky and The Brain...
We can build him. The perfect citizen. He speaks when we tell him to speak. He works when we tell him to work. He never complains. He never asks for payment for his services. He shuts up and does as he is told.
Yes.....the end of times. At warp speed.
... if only we could make him stop hitting it
great minds and et cetera
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