Welcome to the exciting (brave?) new world of deep brain stimulation. Does the idea of implanting a chip in someone’s brain give you the creeps? Fear not! Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital and UCSF are currently trying to change the popular conception from this: into this: The researchers are attempting to use implanted brain chip technology to improve the symptoms of people with a host of mental health problems. From a technical standpoint, I’ve understood very little of what it means to put a chip in someone’s brain. My conception—based mostly on paranoid … [Read more...]