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Hacking the Nervous System
- dang 11y agoUrl changed from http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/29/hacking-the-nervous-syste_n_7469526.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/29/hacking-the-nervous..., which points to this, which is a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9637199 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9637199, but since it didn't have much discussion, we won't treat it as such.
- 2sk21 11y agoI have just finished reading Ramez Naam's Apex trilogy and I wonder if this is a step towards the future described in that book.
- bernardlunn 11y agoGreat research. My intuition is that health science breakthroughs will come from looking at the body as a complex network management problem.
- modanq 11y agoThis is some very stimulating research.
- cpncrunch 11y agoIt's impossible to know if this treatment actually works, without doing a placebo-controlled trial. The article itself says that meditation has a similar effect on the vagus nerve. Implants like this have a large placebo effect, as seen from other placebo-controlled trials.