{"id":273,"date":"2025-03-15T16:23:34","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T16:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/03\/15\/brain-pacemakers-implants-to-be-tested-to-help-alcohol-and-opioid-addicts-health-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2025-03-15T16:23:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T16:23:34","slug":"brain-pacemakers-implants-to-be-tested-to-help-alcohol-and-opioid-addicts-health-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/03\/15\/brain-pacemakers-implants-to-be-tested-to-help-alcohol-and-opioid-addicts-health-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Brain pacemakers\u2019: implants to be tested to help alcohol and opioid addicts | Health | The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Just as we can use a pacemaker to stabilise abnormal electrical rhythms in a person\u2019s 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s disease, implants deliver impulses to movement centres in patients\u2019 brains and halt symptoms that include tremors and involuntary movements.<br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2025\/mar\/15\/brain-implants-alcohol-opioid-addicts-trial\">www.theguardian.com\/society\/2025\/mar\/15\/brain-implants-alcohol-opioid-addicts-trial<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just as we can use a pacemaker to stabilise abnormal electrical rhythms in a person\u2019s 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.\u201d The use of brain implants [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}