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Title: Depressed? Leave the drugs and psychotherapy alone!
Post by: JMM on June 11, 2004, 05:19:41 pm
http://biz.yahoo.com/rc/040611/health_cyberonics_1.html

Pretty cool, too bad it has to be surgically implanted. I imagine the major drug companies would HATE for this thing to be a huge success!  
Title: Re: Depressed? Leave the drugs and psychotherapy alone!
Post by: SL-Punisher on June 11, 2004, 05:52:48 pm
Looks like your Mark 7 mood enhancer has lost its specific settings and has defaulted to "Climb the clock tower and shoot at college students mode". In retrospect, there really wasn't anyway we could have forseen this.  
Title: Re: Depressed? Leave the drugs and psychotherapy alone!
Post by: MarianoDT on June 11, 2004, 06:18:49 pm
Quote:

 ...device that sends electrical pulses to the brain....
...where a wire runs up to wrap around a nerve in the neck....  



That sounds like dangerous to me....

Mariano
 
Title: Re: Depressed? Leave the drugs and psychotherapy alone!
Post by: SghnDubh on June 12, 2004, 12:06:54 am
Quote:

Quote:

 ...device that sends electrical pulses to the brain....
...where a wire runs up to wrap around a nerve in the neck....  



That sounds like dangerous to me....

Mariano
   




yeah, Dangerous FUN!      
Title: Re: Depressed? Leave the drugs and psychotherapy alone!
Post by: JMM on June 12, 2004, 08:58:01 am
Psychotropic drugs are just as dangerous, yet they are a multi-billion dollar a year industry. We have small machines that can control erections, give women orgasms, so why not help control depression? These machines may be large in our opinion now, but within the decade nanotechnology will be taking over these roles that the larger machines do for the moment. Already IBM R&D has made great strides with P/C chips based on nanotechnology, and sooner or later the breakthroughs will be made, and today's high speed machines will go the way of the dinosaur.  
Title: Depressed? Leave the drugs and psychotherapy alone!
Post by: JMM on June 11, 2004, 05:19:41 pm
http://biz.yahoo.com/rc/040611/health_cyberonics_1.html

Pretty cool, too bad it has to be surgically implanted. I imagine the major drug companies would HATE for this thing to be a huge success!  
Title: Re: Depressed? Leave the drugs and psychotherapy alone!
Post by: SL-Punisher on June 11, 2004, 05:52:48 pm
Looks like your Mark 7 mood enhancer has lost its specific settings and has defaulted to "Climb the clock tower and shoot at college students mode". In retrospect, there really wasn't anyway we could have forseen this.  
Title: Re: Depressed? Leave the drugs and psychotherapy alone!
Post by: MarianoDT on June 11, 2004, 06:18:49 pm
Quote:

 ...device that sends electrical pulses to the brain....
...where a wire runs up to wrap around a nerve in the neck....  



That sounds like dangerous to me....

Mariano
 
Title: Re: Depressed? Leave the drugs and psychotherapy alone!
Post by: SghnDubh on June 12, 2004, 12:06:54 am
Quote:

Quote:

 ...device that sends electrical pulses to the brain....
...where a wire runs up to wrap around a nerve in the neck....  



That sounds like dangerous to me....

Mariano
   




yeah, Dangerous FUN!      
Title: Re: Depressed? Leave the drugs and psychotherapy alone!
Post by: JMM on June 12, 2004, 08:58:01 am
Psychotropic drugs are just as dangerous, yet they are a multi-billion dollar a year industry. We have small machines that can control erections, give women orgasms, so why not help control depression? These machines may be large in our opinion now, but within the decade nanotechnology will be taking over these roles that the larger machines do for the moment. Already IBM R&D has made great strides with P/C chips based on nanotechnology, and sooner or later the breakthroughs will be made, and today's high speed machines will go the way of the dinosaur.  
Title: Depressed? Leave the drugs and psychotherapy alone!
Post by: JMM on June 11, 2004, 05:19:41 pm
http://biz.yahoo.com/rc/040611/health_cyberonics_1.html

Pretty cool, too bad it has to be surgically implanted. I imagine the major drug companies would HATE for this thing to be a huge success!  
Title: Re: Depressed? Leave the drugs and psychotherapy alone!
Post by: SL-Punisher on June 11, 2004, 05:52:48 pm
Looks like your Mark 7 mood enhancer has lost its specific settings and has defaulted to "Climb the clock tower and shoot at college students mode". In retrospect, there really wasn't anyway we could have forseen this.  
Title: Re: Depressed? Leave the drugs and psychotherapy alone!
Post by: MarianoDT on June 11, 2004, 06:18:49 pm
Quote:

 ...device that sends electrical pulses to the brain....
...where a wire runs up to wrap around a nerve in the neck....  



That sounds like dangerous to me....

Mariano
 
Title: Re: Depressed? Leave the drugs and psychotherapy alone!
Post by: SghnDubh on June 12, 2004, 12:06:54 am
Quote:

Quote:

 ...device that sends electrical pulses to the brain....
...where a wire runs up to wrap around a nerve in the neck....  



That sounds like dangerous to me....

Mariano
   




yeah, Dangerous FUN!      
Title: Re: Depressed? Leave the drugs and psychotherapy alone!
Post by: JMM on June 12, 2004, 08:58:01 am
Psychotropic drugs are just as dangerous, yet they are a multi-billion dollar a year industry. We have small machines that can control erections, give women orgasms, so why not help control depression? These machines may be large in our opinion now, but within the decade nanotechnology will be taking over these roles that the larger machines do for the moment. Already IBM R&D has made great strides with P/C chips based on nanotechnology, and sooner or later the breakthroughs will be made, and today's high speed machines will go the way of the dinosaur.