Britain to test brain implant for mood enhancement
In the UK, the National Health Service is testing a brain implant that has the potential to improve a person's mood. This was reported by British newspaper The Guardian on January 20.
"The devices may have the potential to help patients with conditions such as depression, drug addiction, obsessive-compulsive disorder and epilepsy," the report says.
The newspaper writes that the device will deliver special ultrasound pulses to "turn on" clusters of neurons. Its safety and tolerability will be tested on about 30 patients in trials.
In November, it became known that the company of American businessman Ilon Musk Neuralink implanted the first implant in the human brain.
At the same time, Denis Kuzmin, director of the Fiztech School of Biological and Medical Physics at MIPT, said that implantation of implants into the brain is a well-established technology, which is more than 20 years old. However, the procedure has both pros and cons.
