No more painkillers A side-effect free, and drug-free method to relieve pain

https://www.universal-sci.com/article/relieving-chronic-pain-with-microelectrodes

by gurjeet • 5 years ago

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ta988• 5 years ago

In rats. "According to Forni, it is possible to up-scale the electrode designs to be applicable to humans. "

Causality1• 5 years ago

I'm curious to know how they came to the conclusion there were no side effects, even in rats. Everything has side effects.

sosuke• 5 years ago

Changes in behavior, changes in body chemistry, appetite, lethargy, aggression and many more observable things I wouldn't know.

Bancakes• 5 years ago

tl;dr stimulate pain relief nerves in the brain with electrodes

U1F984• 5 years ago

Original paper/article: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abj2847

josephpmay• 5 years ago

My mom has implanted electrodes for pain relief, so this technique isn’t new, although it sounds like it might be much more targeted here (and implanted in the brain rather than the pain site)

imchillyb• 5 years ago

this technique isn’t new, although it sounds like it might be much more targeted here and implanted in the brain rather than the pain site @josephpmay

Uh... That's the 'new' bit. These are extremely thin electrodes that are implanted into the brain tissue.

That is an entirely new procedure and process.

All other pain management attempts to block the pain signaling down-stream. These down-stream signal blockers have very limited effect as the machinery in the brain still sends the signals.

This process prevents those signals from being generated.

THAT is entirely new.

Implanting electrodes directly into the pain management area of the brain...

THAT is entirely new.

Don't denigrate someone's work. That's childish.

01100011• 5 years ago

You had a fairly helpful and insightful comment until you ruined it with:

Don't denigrate someone's work. That's childish.

after_care• 5 years ago

I’ve seen several brain-electrode stories on HN in the last couple of weeks. Has there been a breakthrough in the underlying technology or theory of this medical technology?

pfortuny• 5 years ago

Rats, people, just rats for now.

riffraff• 5 years ago

I somehow missed a comma and read that as "rat people, just rats now" and my mind raced to interpret that in sooo many different ways.

samuelfekete• 5 years ago

It’s highly unlikely that anything that has an effect will have zero side effects.

Perhaps, we just don’t yet know what those side effects will be.

noduerme• 5 years ago

Isn't the disfigurement usually associated with leprosy due to the sufferer's lack of pain feedback?

No more painkillers A side-effect free, and drug-free method to relieve pain

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