MIND READING AND MIND CONTROL TECHNOLOGIES ARE ON THE WAY ???

Mind is the most sophisticated and highly mysterious thing in the world. Multiple researchers, scientists and professors spending their entire life to research about brain and it’s spectacular functions. Now, scientist have gone an extra mile in researching brain and in it’s inner function. Can you believe that now scientist can find out what you are thinking? Tapping into your wandering mind can measure your IQ, identify your cognitive strengths and weaknesses, perceive your personality and determine your aptitude for learning specific types of information. Electrical activity in a preschooler’s brain be used to can predict, for example, how well that child will be able to read when they go to school. If you need further information regarding this, you can read the book Electric brain. The neuropsychologist Dr. Fredric recently wrote an article. In that article he has mentioned, “after having brainwaves in my idling mind recorded using EEG for only five minutes, neuropsychologist Chantel Prat at the University of Washington, in Seattle, pronounced that learning a foreign language would be difficult for me because of weak beta waves in a particular part of my cerebral cortex processing language”, that’s something extraordinary right? How will this ability to know a person’s mind change education and career choices?

Nowadays, neuroscientists are using MRI brain imaging to decipher what a person is thinking. By using machine learning to analyze complex patterns of activity in a person’s brain when they think of a specific number or object, read a sentence, experience a particular emotion or learn a new type of information, the researchers can read minds and know the person’s specific thoughts and emotions. “Nothing is more private than a thought,” Just says, but that privacy is no longer sacrosanct.

Armed with the ability to know what a person is thinking, scientists can do even more. They can predict what a person might do. Just and his team are able to tell if a person is contemplating suicide, simply by watching how the person’s brain responds to hearing words like “death” or “happiness. This research will definitely going through a new dimension and such “brain hacking” to uncover that someone is thinking of suicide could be lifesaving.

The ability to control electrical activity in brain circuits has the potential to do for brain disorders what electrical stimulation has accomplished in treating cardiac disorders. By beaming electrical or magnetic pulses through the scalp, and by implanting electrodes in the brain, researchers and doctors can treat a vast array of neurological and psychiatric disorders, from Parkinson’s disease to chronic depression.
The prospect of controlling a person’s brain by electrical stimulation is disturbing for many, but current methods of treating mental and neurological disorders are woefully inadequate and far too blunt. Neurological and psychoactive drugs affect many different neural circuits in addition to the one targeted, causing wide-ranging side effects. Not only the brain but every cell in the body that interacts with the drugs, will be affected and damaged.

At present, drugs available for treating mental illness and neurological conditions are not always effective, and they are often prescribed in a trial-and-error manner. So, nowadays scientists and doctors have been using electrical current with specific circuit design to cure most of the diseases.

Article By : P.Sriranjan