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Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 67922958 United States 06/01/2016 03:18 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | "Electricity travels in all directions, but light allows you to focus on just one region," Boyden explained. "And drugs are really slow to act, taking seconds to minutes to hours. Optogenetics allows you to target specific brain cells within milliseconds." It's also a much more practical approach for studying the brains of growing animals, especially over the long term. "Inserting optical fibers into the brain just doesn’t work for developing brains," Boyden explained. "As the brain grows, they could cause damage." Similarly, the non-invasive approach enables long-term studies of the brain. "And, if you want to silence a large region of the brain, the non-invasive approach works well." Boyden added. His team has used optogenetics with implanted light sources to study mice with symptoms of anxiety, fear, memory loss and post-traumatic stress disorder. Scientists examine the effects on those conditions of stimulating specific groups of neurons. Other research teams have taken a similar approach to studies of grooming behavior in mice and the neural pathways through which cocaine flows in the brain. The Jaws protein will permit more extensive studies of that type. "Advances like Jaws certainly help with non-invasive treatment strategies," Lyon agreed. However, he noted that implanted light sources will retain some use. "Probably the most likely scenario will be to use them to activate opsins in deeper brain structures." Applying the new technology to human subjects is not practical at present, as it would require gene therapy to introduce the opsin into individuals’ brains. "Gene therapy is not approved in the United States," Boyden said. But if that changes, non-invasive optogenetic technology facilitated by the Jaws protein has significant healing potential. "The ability to turn off brain activity might allow you to stop overactive regions of the brain -- during epileptic seizures, for example," Boyden said. |
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Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 67922958 United States 06/01/2016 01:57 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | VR porn is too good to care. Get the right video adjustments set up with the Vive, and it's pretty amazing. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 68583302 And that's sad. If you know anything about occultism, orgasm can be a moment where your mind is empty and the subconcious is open in order to set a magickal act in motion. Seems it is also a great opportunity to implant things in your mind after you've had the Jaws protein uploaded. The video below shows a Pentagon plan to affect religious centers of the brain via a vaccine (notice that the religious center is where the "third eye" is. Also, the area of the skull would also be exposed to whatever light the VR headset emits after one has the Jaws vaccine introduced in the brain to absorb light waves. Scary stuff guys. But alas, sigh, no pin. |
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