Health Desk-11 Nov
2019: Patients with severe opioid addiction are being given brain implants
to help reduce their cravings, in the first trial of its kind in the US.
Gerod Buckhalter, 33, who has struggled with substance abuse
for more than a decade with many relapses and overdoses, has already had the
surgery.
Lead doctor Ali Rezai described the device as a
"pacemaker for the brain".
But he added it was not a consumer technology and should not
be used for "augmenting humans".
Mr Buckhalter had his operation on 1 November at the West
Virginia University Medicine Hospital. Three more volunteers will also have the
procedure.
It starts with a series of brain scans. Surgery follows with
doctors making a small hole in the skull in order to insert a tiny 1mm
electrode in the specific area of the brain that regulate impulses such as
addiction and self-control.
Courtesy: BBC Health
http://amarhealth.com/amar-doctor/4618/BrainimplantsusedtofightdrugaddictioninUS
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