Rodents’ short-term and chronic ache might be diminished by a computerised mind implant

June 17, 2021 Service technology

A computer-assisted brain implant can reduce short-term and persistent pain in rodents, according to a new study from NYU Grossman School of Medicine.

The experiments conducted by the researchers will provide a blueprint for the advancement of brain implants to control pain and other brain diseases.

“Short-term and persistent pain from rodents can be alleviated with a computerized brain implant.”

The team reported that rodents with implanted devices removed their paws 40 percent more gently when they experienced a sharp pain than when their devices were turned off. The team published the study in Nature Biomedical Engineering. This suggests that the rodents’ pain severity decreased due to the device. In addition, people with constant or immediate pain spent about two-thirds more time in a chamber with the computer-controlled device turned on than in a room in which it was turned off.

The team installed electrodes in dozens of the rodents’ brains and then exposed them to carefully measured amounts of pain. Researchers were able to track how often the device accurately identified pain-based brain activity in the anterior cingulate corex by monitoring how quickly they receded from the source of pain.

According to the study authors, the implant found pain in up to eighty percent of the cases.

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