US Woman Receives Revolutionary Brain Implant For OCD And Epilepsy (www.sciencealert.com)
from floofloof@lemmy.ca to technology@lemmy.ml on 05 Feb 2024 17:18
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LufyCZ@lemmy.world on 05 Feb 2024 18:25 next collapse

Crazy that we can treat shit like this, well done whoever worked on the thing

flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works on 06 Feb 2024 04:16 collapse

Holy crap, that’s amazing!!

I’m really intrigued about this, however - it’s like it needed some training to find the accurate ‘dosage’, or some sort of warmup/acclimation period:

For Pearson, there was an eight-month wait after the 2019 procedure to see any noticeable difference.

But gradually, the all-consuming rituals that had taken up eight or nine hours every day since her teenage years began to ebb.