Neurostimulation as a way to alter mood is already a reality. An FDA-verified, peer-reviewed fact, neurostimulation was used by doctors at Mt. Sinai Beth Israel in New York to successfully treat bipolar depression – with zero side effects.
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This seemingly quick and easy fix may soon become more common and popular. According to Digital Trends:
Mood alteration is becoming as simple and inexpensive as a battery-powered handheld device with two little electrodes you strap on your head. Sit there for 20 minutes receiving gentle, barely perceptible pulses, and cure your anxiety, insomnia, PTSD, depression, bipolar disorder, and more.
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It’s also pretty cheap. The leading device, the Fisher Wallace Stimulator, retails for around $600; and some insurance companies and Medicaid will even pay for it. It costs less than a monthly dose of many mood stabilizers and is without side effects of said drugs, like decreased libido or insomnia.
Here’s how it works:
It appears that tiny amounts of electrical current don’t actually cause resting brain neurons to fire. But they can enhance or reduce what brain cells are already doing, by changing the voltage of the nerve-cell membranes. The positive electrode makes cells more excited, while the negative one calms them down.
In addition to making us smarter, and better athletes, we’re interested to see how doctors, techies and consciousness researchers will use this technology to affect our mood.
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Digital Trends
