Scientists Found a New Way to Control the Brain With Light

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Dark to Light... get in loser, we’re artificially incepting memories with light!

Scientists Found a New Way to Control the Brain With Light—No Surgery Required

If I had to place money on a neurotech that will win the Nobel Prize, it’s optogenetics.

The technology uses light of different frequencies to control the brain. It’s a brilliant mind-meld of basic neurobiology and engineering that hijacks the mechanism behind how neurons naturally activate—or are silenced—in the brain.

Thanks to optogenetics, in just ten years we’ve been able to artificially incept memories in mice, decipher brain signals that lead to pain, untangle the neural code for addiction, reverse depression, restore rudimentary sight in blinded mice, and overwrite terrible memories with happy ones. Optogenetics is akin to a universal programming language for the brain.

But it’s got two serious downfalls: it requires gene therapy, and it needs brain surgery to implant optical fibers into the brain.

This week, the original mind behind optogenetics is back with an update that cuts the cord. Dr. Karl Deisseroth’s team at Stanford University, in collaboration with the University of Minnesota, unveiled an upgraded version of optogenetics that controls behavior without the need for surgery. Rather, the system shines light through the skulls of mice, and it penetrates deep into the brain. With light pulses, the team was able to change how likely a mouse was to have seizures, or reprogram its brain so it preferred social company.

To be clear: we’re far off from scientists controlling your brain with flashlights. The key to optogenetics is genetic engineering—without it, neurons (including yours) don’t naturally respond to light.

However, looking ahead, the study is a sure-footed step towards transforming a powerful research technology into a clinical therapy that could potentially help people with neurological problems, such as depression or epilepsy. We are still far from that vision—but the study suggests it’s science fiction potentially within reach.

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Using viruses, scientists can add a gene for opsins, a special family of proteins from algae, into living neurons. Opsins are specialized “doors” that open under certain frequencies of light pulses, something mammalian brain cells can’t do. Adding opsins into mouse neurons (or ours) essentially gives them the superpower to respond to light. In classic optogenetics, scientists implant optical fibers near opsin-dotted neurons to deliver the light stimulation. Computer-programmed light pulses can then target these newly light-sensitive neurons in a particular region of the brain and control their activity like puppets on a string.

It gets cooler. Using genetic engineering, scientists can also fine-tune which populations of neurons get that extra power—for example, only those that encode a recent memory, or those involved in depression or epilepsy. This makes it possible to play with those neural circuits using light, while the rest of the brain hums along.

This selectivity is partially why optogenetics is so powerful. But it’s not all ponies and rainbows. As you can imagine, mice don’t particularly enjoy being tethered by optical fibers sprouting from their brains. Humans don’t either, hence the hiccup in adopting the tool for clinical use. Since its introduction, a main goal for next-generation optogenetics has been to cut the cord.

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But for unraveling the inner workings of the brain, it’s an amazing leap into the future. So far, efforts at cutting the optical cord for optogenetics have come with the knee-capped ability to go deep into the brain, limiting control to only surface brain regions such as the cortex. Other methods overheat sensitive brain tissue and culminate in damage. Yet others act as 1990s DOS systems, with significant delay between a command (activate!) and the neuron’s response.

This brain-control OS, though not yet perfect, resolves those problems. Unlike Neuralink and other neural implants, the study suggests it’s possible to control the brain without surgery or implants. All you need is light.

Singularity hub

"It's Time to submit to your PODI procedure!"


Photonic Occular Demiurge Installation.



If you consider memory an act of rebellion that threatens the various false reality narratives of state mandates required to maintain control of the cybernetic system, the cultivation of an early-onset alzheimer’s epidemic starts to make sense as a mitigation strategy.

June 2021: Ramblin Joe Biden claimed every single hospital bed in America will have an Alzheimer patient in 15 years.



Note that DARPA has spent a lot of time and $$$ in Alzheimer research in which Biden-Harris national healthcare, ARPA-H is modeled after DARPA.

Assuming they (DARPA, Biden Administration, etc.) are anticipating a mass early onset of Alzheimer’s disease they can offer up machine-brain control interface as the most effective solution...And it's being tested on some disabled military vets.


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Mark A. Markowitz


For the low price of $3500, you can help IARPA, SRI, and NVIDIA turn your sensory neurons into remote control toys for Yaldabaoth.



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The Journal of Neuroscience


Optogenetics Guide



Researchers Achieve Mind Control Using Only Light


Dunno where I'm going with all this, but...

[NightskyeB4Dawn]

But, wait, there's more...


The Journal of Neuroscience


Optogenetics Guide



Researchers Achieve Mind Control Using Only Light


Dunno where I'm going with all this, but...

I will pass. 

Thank you very much.

[727Sky]

During maneuvers in Germany a tank column was moving rapidly down a forested road . All of a sudden a tank departed the road and ran into a rather large tree that both stopped the tank and did some damage to both the tree and tank. Come to find out the sun flickering through the trees caused something called flicker vertigo which cause the driver to basically short circuit/black out even though his eyes were wide open.

Helicopter pilots were warned that there was such a thing as flicker vertigo (think sun shining through moving rotor blades), however the majority of people are not particularly susceptible to the effect.

Picture a strobe light flashing in a dark room and depending on the frequency you might start to feel weird, like shut that thing off !

Just thought I would throw that story into the mix ..

[quintessentone]

Those two serious flaws mentioned (gene therapy and an implant) sort of categorizes it within the fiction genre, am I right?

[BodhisattvaStyle]

This is scary enough, but Imma throw another variable in the mix.

If they are letting us see this now, then "they" have had this tech for about 20-30 years already. I believe that what we are seeing now, is the "marketable" aspect of it. Get people to pay for the "service" (brain tune-up) and not only will they control brains, they will get rich(er) while doing so.

So, I always throw in the fact that whatever we see now, the government(s) have been experimenting with it for decades before we get to see any of it. This is another weapon that will be used against the people. Bur we all know that already. The unnerving part is, what aren't we seeing here with this...

[Ninurta]

Those two serious flaws mentioned (gene therapy and an implant) sort of categorizes it within the fiction genre, am I right?

From the documents presented, it appears that only the brain implant is currently a barrier. The gene therapy is not. According to the documentation, the gene therapy can be accomplished by release of an engineered virus. It's already a well known fact that virii can and do manipulate genetic material during an infection. We, all of us, still bear snippets of "junk DNA" that was injected by virii millennia ago during the infection of some ancestor. Engineering a virus and then releasing it just takes advantage of that natural mechanism to willfully change human DNA in a particular, chosen, direction.

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