{"id":184069,"date":"2023-01-12T00:19:04","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T00:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/first-implant-to-treat-depression-is-revealed-new-brain-chipset-to-rival-elon-musks-nueralink\/"},"modified":"2023-01-12T00:19:04","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T00:19:04","slug":"first-implant-to-treat-depression-is-revealed-new-brain-chipset-to-rival-elon-musks-nueralink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/first-implant-to-treat-depression-is-revealed-new-brain-chipset-to-rival-elon-musks-nueralink\/","title":{"rendered":"First implant to treat depression is REVEALED: New brain chipset to rival Elon Musk’s Nueralink"},"content":{"rendered":"
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While Elon Musk’s Neuralink expects to begin human trials in six months, a neurotech company unveiled a device that treats depression and is now in the skull of the first patient.<\/p>\n
Inner Cosmos’s ‘digital pill’ includes two parts: An electrode that sits under the skin of the scalp and the ‘prescription pod’ that snaps onto the users’ hair to power the device.<\/p>\n
The implant sends tiny electrical pulses to the brain region affected by depression – the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex – once daily for 15 minutes.<\/p>\n
And the external device does not need to be on the head when treatment is not being administered.<\/p>\n
The trial patient from St Louise, Missouri, is scheduled to test Inner Cosmos innovation for one year, and the company has another human trial set to start next month.<\/p>\n