Ok. This is great and all, alleviating depression with electrical zaps through the eyes, but can we not ignore the part where absolutely non-invasive brain lasers shot right through your eyeballs can manipulate your feelings?
Sometimes, I prefer to have my brain manipulation to be invasive. I want to know that it's happening. Because right now all I can see is advertisements that, literally just by looking at them, will make me want them.
But wait, there's more -- because you know what happens when an industry just explodes onto the scene (like a form of advertising that claims to change the emotional state of their target), they become a vector for infection, and now we have well-trained nation-state computer experts designing mind viruses to be injected into our limbic system via an advertisement for online gambling.
Researchers discover non-invasive stimulation of eye as potential treatment of depression and dementia
Jul 2022, phys.org
Electrical stimulation of the eye surface (transcorneal electrical stimulation, or TES) can alleviate depression-like symptoms and improve cognitive function in animal models by activating brain pathways, and which otherwise requires invasive surgery to implant electrodes deep in the brain.
via The University of Hong Kong: Wing Shan Yu et al, Antidepressant-like effects of transcorneal electrical stimulation in rat models, Brain Stimulation (2022). DOI: 10.1016/j.brs.2022.05.018
Also: Wing Shan Yu et al, Transcorneal electrical stimulation enhances cognitive functions in aged and 5XFAD mouse models, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences (2022). DOI: 10.1111/nyas.14850
Image credit: black and white brain xray
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