Just as we can use a pacemaker to stabilise abnormal electrical rhythms in a person’s heart, we believe we can use a brain implant to act like a pacemaker and normalise deviant electrical brain rhythms that are linked to addiction. This trial will show if this is a practical idea.”
The use of brain implants has become popular with doctors treating brain disorders in recent years. More than a quarter of a million people are fitted with them to control symptoms of a range of conditions. In the case of Parkinson’s disease, implants deliver impulses to movement centres in patients’ brains and halt symptoms that include tremors and involuntary movements.
— Read on www.theguardian.com/society/2025/mar/15/brain-implants-alcohol-opioid-addicts-trial
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