World-First Study Shows Electromagnetic Pulses Can Influence Mouse Brains.mp4

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Neuralink is making strides with regards to implanted brain augmentation that lets the user control computer interfaces with their mind. However, a new study might be nightmare fuel for some, as scientists were able to do the opposite: control mice with the flick of a switch.

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00:00Elon Musk's company Neuralink is making strides with regards to implanted brain

00:08augmentation. It lets the user control computer interfaces with their mind. However, a new study

00:13might be nightmare fuel for some, as scientists were able to do the opposite, control mice with

00:18the flick of a switch. The mice were engineered with nanoparticle-activated switches in their

00:23brains. This is a far cry from previous mind control experiments, ones where surgically

00:28implanted electrodes were required. This new experiment didn't need any of that, with the

00:32researchers simply engineering the mice and then turning on a magnetic field. The researchers say

00:37they were able to enhance the natural behaviors of mother mice, with the females reacting more

00:42quickly and intensely to the cries of baby mice. Amongst mice who were introduced to strangers,

00:47they found when the magnetic field was washing over their brains, they were friendlier. Researchers

00:51were also able to turn on or off a mouse's hunger response. They're calling the tech magnetogenic

00:57interface for neurodynamics, or nanomind for short, with the study's senior authors saying,

01:02this is the world's first technology to freely control specific brain regions using magnetic fields.

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