Obama's BRAIN Initiative yields first study results

Reuters ^ | Thu Apr 30, 2015 12:05pm EDT | BY SHARON BEGLEY

[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).

[Lazamataz]

Some things not even science can control.

[ETL]

I wonder who’s brain is bigger and/or more powerful, Obama’s or the Mouse’s.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

1. More and more jobs replaced by robots.
2. The few jobs remaining will require more efficient interfacing with computers and the robots.
3. People who want those jobs will need to have their brains "chipped up".
4. The chips will improve your memory, calculation speed, allow you to connect via WiFi to computer systems, etc.
5. The chips will also guarantee that you will be a happy and productive citizen.

[M Kehoe]

Will aluminum help?

Scary stuff.

5.56mm

[Citizen Zed]

IMDB: American Ultra Movie

[RedHeeler]

The Ultimate in Community Organ-ization.

[Doogle]

[Doogle]

"...just more meat on the bones"

[musicman]

"Obama's BRAIN Initiative
yields first study results..."



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[SunkenCiv]

LOLOLOL!!!!

That sound you hear is me, stealing the crap out of that graphic!

[Ezekiel]

Billy Ray Valentine: [on his first day of work] What if I can't do this job, Coleman? What if I'm not what they expected?

Coleman: Just be yourself, sir. Whatever happens, they can't take that away from you.

The Dukes, no. Fedzilla OTOH...

[musicman]

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Who here doesn’t have a baaaaaaad feeling about this.

PING!

[Iron Munro]

Does anyone else have a horrible feeling about where this is leading?

Democrats can't wait for this technique to be perfected.

It would be more efficient, less troublesome and less costly than their current methods of controlling human behavior.

[tet68]

Obama’s brain CURES homosexuality?

Who would be attracted after that eh.

[null and void]

[Nachum]

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[Albion Wilde]

They will test it on U.S. military. Maybe they have already.

[null and void]

At no point in history has any government ever wanted its people to be defenseless for any good reason ~ nully's son

The biggest killer of mankind

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[TBP]

The behaviorist’s lab rats. Totalitarian to the core.