Remote Excitation of Neuronal Circuits Using Low-Intensity,
Low-Frequency Ultrasound
This is about a technique for changing neural activity which is better
than current non-invasive techniques used in psychiatry such as deep
brain stimulation or transcranial magnetic stimulation.
The research by the lead author is being funded by the US military. It's
not actually for mind control weapons. They've already got lots of stuff
for that. It's for new ways to interface with information and electronic
warfare systems. William Tyler has recently cofounded a company to bring
this technology to the market called SynSonic just recently so it's
something we may be seeing in devices in twenty to third years.
It will become something which psychiatrists start using much quicker if
given the opportunity. Any new weapon in their armentarium of
behavioural modification tools is put to use as quick as possible, and
even without the evidence that it works. It seems this particular
technology could be quickly brought to clinical trials stage since it is
based on established behaviour control technology.
I'm always careful to call it behavioural control rather than healthcare
which is what the authrs of the research paper probably think they're
exploring.
I imagine in a parallel universe where just one thing had happened
different this same paper would be on the application of this technique
to make homosexuals not mentally ill or subdue those pesky black slaves
who kept on running away. Those are problems which have fuck all to do
with medicine, the ethics of medicine or the paradigm of healthcare.
It's bad enough that the medical profession has been bastardised into
psychiatry. I imagine there are certain charities right now who might
see this new behavioural modification technology to be the solution for
mental distress or well being.
There's also a part of me which thinks this technology could mean there
will be amazing new ways to get high in the future. After all, the
majority of mental health treatments are little different to effects
provided by illegal drugs. Herbal cannabis is like an antipsychotic.
Binge drinking can be good for depression. Antidepressants aren't a bad
high but there are better ones available illegally.
Perhaps there will become a black market for these sort of devices to
induce pleasure as well as remove certain behaviours, or both. The new
opiate for the masses might be a headset device which can trigger any
number of neurochemical reactions to get people higher than they've ever
been before and safer while doing it.
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