Is this the future for mood control?

Jul 18, 2015, 06:02 PM

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I don't know what to think. It's had good reviews from NTs. I wonder what will happen. What do you think - would you get one?

healingme4me · Jul 20, 2015, 01:01 PM

After reading the precautions, I'm medically ruled out, for the mere mention of motor seizure observations by my neurologist.

I find the choice of imaging for their app very, very...interesting.

ManOfConstantSorrow · Jul 20, 2015, 04:53 PM

Where is the evidence? Just an unpublished paper.

unaluna · Jul 20, 2015, 05:12 PM

Gorgeous models! I like(not!) how they say the fda doesnt have to approve it cuz its a lifestyle thingie. Looks like you got a minipad stuck on your forehead, i dont want to "thync" (dumb dumb dumb name!!!) how that ended up there!

(JD) · Jul 20, 2015, 05:43 PM

Could be. You know many scoffed at the TENS unit when it came out, now anyone can buy one without a prescription. But only 82 in the first experiment?

Quote:

We sought to develop a method for
modulating psychophysiological arousal and
stress responses by providing electrical signaling
waveforms through afferent pathways of cranial
nerves to neuromodulatory nuclei in the
brainstem. During signal transmission to cortex,
incoming sensory signals carried by the trigeminal
and facial nerves simultaneously undergo local
processing by a series of highly inter-connected
structures including the reticular formation (RF)
of the reticular activating system (RAS) located in
the pons (Figure 1). These brain stem circuits are
a first station of information integration in the
brain that support higher consciousness by
filtering, integrating, and processing incoming
sensory information [15]. Here cranial and spinal
nerve activity modulates the nucleus of the
solitary tract (NTS), locus coeruleus (LC) and
other nuclei responsible for the bottom-up
regulation of cortical gain, psychophysiological
arousal, and neurobiological responses to
environmental stimuli and stressors (Figure 1)
[16-22]. More specifically trigeminal afferent
activity can modulate noradrenergic neurons via
direct projections from the trigeminal sensory
nucleus to the LC [16]. Through these bottom-up
pathways, the LC and noradrenergic signaling
modulates human behavior, sleep/wake/arousal
cycles, and higher cortical functions including attention and cognition [16-22]. Exemplifying
functional modulation of this circuitry, trigeminal
nerve modulation has been shown to be
moderately effective for treating psychiatric
disorders like depression [23] and neurological
conditions like epilepsy [24, 25].
Given the growing interest e of TEN on self-reported
relaxation, the sample consisted of 82 healthy
right-handed subjects (34 male, 48 female)
between the ages of 18 and 50 (mean age = 24.07
± 7.07 years) that were recruited from the greater
Boston, MA area. Forty three percent of
participants were Caucasian, 35% were Asian, 12%
were African-American, and 6% were Hispanic.
These participants were fairly educated: 60%
completed some college, 22% had a college
degree, and 16% completed some post-graduate
work or had a post-graduate degree. Exclusion
criteria were as follows: neurological or
psychiatric disorder, cranial or facial metal plate
or screw implants, severe face or head trauma,
recent concussion or brain injury, recent
hospitalized for surgery/illness, high blood
pressure, heart disease, diabetes, acute eczema on
the scalp, and uncorrectable vision or hearing. In
Experiment 2, designed to study the influence of
TEN on psychophysiological arousal and the
mobilization salivary biochemicals in response to
acute stress, 20 male subjects were yoked from
the previous sample. We used males to avoid the
introduction of confounds related to hormonal
variance across menstrual cycles on stress
biochemical profiles. The subjects were between
the ages 19 to 27 (mean age = 22.3 ± 2.2 years).
Fifty percent of the subjects were Asian, 35% were
Caucasian, 10% were African American and 5%
were Hispanic. Forty percent of participants had
completed some college, 40% had a college degree
and 15% had completed some post-graduate work.
Fifty percent were employed and of those who
indicated that they were unemployed 50% were
students.

Thought+Broad.Girl · Jul 20, 2015, 10:03 PM

trippy! LOL. could work. if i was more of a scientist i would be able to analyze it better...... electrical waves, kinda scary though... (could be put out by government for a reason

) would need to know how safe it is. how many times it's been tested.

Nammu · Jul 20, 2015, 10:47 PM

I can just see somebody combining this gizmo with google glasses and a fitness band ....all they would need is moon boots and a one piece stretchy outfit to be cast in a 1960 sci fi.

unaluna · Jul 20, 2015, 10:51 PM

Seriously how did no one tell them it looks like a panty liner?

Webgoji · Jul 21, 2015, 06:56 AM

That looks like a headache just waiting to happen ...

JaGo · Jul 21, 2015, 10:54 AM

Yeah, I'm wondering where more research is on this. And it really does stick out.

"Uh....you've got something on your head"

"Yes, I'm using it to control your mind"

Jul 23, 2015, 02:31 AM

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Originally Posted by hankster

Seriously how did no one tell them it looks like a panty liner?

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