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This is the Facebook page for anyone interested in the development of iPlant technology. It's part of the iPlant website, which promotes ethical development of iPlants and public awareness of monoamine neuroscience and deep brain stimulation.
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iPlant Scientific and Ethical Issues Related to DBS for Disorders of Mood, Behaviour and Thought via Anibal Monasterio Astobiza

Source: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
A two-day consensus conference was held in order to examine scientific and ethical issues in the application of deep brain stimulation in the treatment of mood and behavioral disorders such as major depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and Tourette syndrome. The primary objectives of the confe...
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Source: www.nature.com
(...) Here, we review modern lesion procedures and DBS for OCD in the context of neurocircuitry. A key issue is that clinical benefit can be obtained after surgeries targeting different brain structures. This fits well with anatomical models, in which circuits connecting orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), ...
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iPlant Chris prepares his talk at the International Neuromodulation Society 2009 conference in Seoul, South Korea

Powerpoint for the talk:
http://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dcdz9gxp_914d9bhqkg3

Associated poster:
http://www.iplant.eu/INS2009.pdf

YouTube version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfNOY-EjdHw

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iPlant Blogpost about a recent paper in which DBS was used to treat severe alcoholism..

Gediminas Luksys

Gediminas Luksys I guess you guys should like this link:
http://www.oxytocin.org/
;)

August 28 at 5:26pm · Report
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yea, that's one of the limitations, at least for now. but maybe in X years time DBS for various disorders will become widespread and safe, and then maybe healthy people will consider it as well./Laura
August 30 at 11:46am
Nick
Nick
One of those things that seems almost dangerous... "And it seems to me perfectly in the cards that there will be within the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing...a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from... Read More them but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda, brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods." - Aldous Huxley. Always worth keeping www.cognitiveliberty.org/ in mind.
September 14 at 6:49pm
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iPlant This video describes how to combine two well-established technologies - deep brain stimulation to the human reward system and conditional rewarding brain stimulation - to make iPlants.

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iPlant This video describes the working memory function of the prefrontal cortex and the maintenance of its neuronal groups by dopamine.

For more information visit http://www.iplant.eu/monoamine.html

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iPlant Hand-held controllers give patients limited control of their deep brain stimulation implants stimulation parameters http://bit.ly/A0DN7

Source: bit.ly
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iPlant This video describes rewarding brain stimulation.
For references and more information visit http://www.iplant.eu/rbs.html

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iPlant This video describes the relationship between dopamine and the frontal lobes.
For more information visit http://www.iplant.eu/monoamine.html

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