I've decided to volunteer for experimental brain surgery research

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  • Elsewhere
    Elsewhere

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/sciencenews/3886862/Sex-chip-being-developed-by-scientists.html

    'Sex chip' being developed by scientists

    Scientists are developing an electronic "sex chip" that can be implanted into the brain to stimulate pleasure.

    By Chris Irvine
    Last Updated: 8:36AM GMT 22 Dec 2008

    The chip works by sending tiny shocks from implanted electrodes in the brain.

    The technology has been used in the United States to treat Parkinson's disease.

    But in recent months scientists have been focusing on the area of the brain just behind the eyes known as the orbitofrontal cortex - this is associated with feelings of pleasure derived from eating and sex.

    A research survey conducted by Morten Kringelbach, senior fellow at Oxford University's department of psychiatry, found the orbitofrontal cortex could be a "new stimulation target" to help people suffering from anhedonia, an inability to experience pleasure from such activities. His findings are reported in the Nature Reviews Neuroscience journal.

    Neurosurgery professor Tipu Aziz, said: "There is evidence that this chip will work. A few years ago a scientist implanted such a device into the brain of a woman with a low sex drive and turned her into a very sexually active woman. She didn't like the sudden change, so the wiring in her head was removed."

    He added however that the current technology, which requires surgery to connect a wire from a heart pacemaker into the brain, can cause bleeding and is "intrusive and crude".

    He continued: "When the technology is improved, we can use deep brain stimulation in many new areas. It will be more subtle, with more control over the power so you may be able to turn the chip on and off when needed.

    "In 10 years' time the range of therapies available will be amazing – we don't know half the possibilities yet."

    An electronic machine, named the Orgasmatron, taken from the 1973 Woody Allen film Sleeper, is already under development by a North Carolina doctor, who is modifying a spinal cord stimulator to produce pleasure in women.

  • Satanus
    Satanus

    Cool. Guess we won't see you no more, eh? Science fiction has written about this stuff, as an addiction, like a drug. Plug in, turn on, and bye bye world;)

    S

  • oompa
    oompa

    well as you can see...i have great knowledge of brain surgery and brain transplants even.......but as for this particular operation............

    I'd rather have a bottle in front of me........than a frontal lobotomy......

    well i always like that line..............oomps

  • purplesofa
    purplesofa

    at first when i read the topic I was like cripes, what now, and then I saw the poster.....

    purps

  • Mary
    Mary

    Wouldn't a blow-up doll work just as well?

    altaltalt

  • CaptainSchmideo
    CaptainSchmideo

    Anybody ever read or see the movie "The Terminal Man?"

    The main character suffers from incredibly violent blackouts, caused by a type of brain seizure.

    In order to prevent these from happening, surgeons install a device to trigger the pleasure center in his brain at the onset of the siezure, in order to counteract it.

    Unfortunately, the brain enjoys the stimulus so much, it starts triggering the seizures just to get the stimulus. The cycles keep increasing in regularity until the man goes permanently homicidal!

    To quote Emo Phillips: "I used to believe that the Brain was the most fascinating organ of the human body. Then I realized what was telling me this!"

  • Satanus
    Satanus

    Mary

    'Wouldn't a blow-up doll work just as well?'

    How would you stuff that inside elsewhere's head?

    S

  • darth frosty
    darth frosty

    You stupid...where do I sign up???

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