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Humans increasingly are electronically connected to each other through computers, cellphones, and soon, wearable devices like watches and electronic eyeglasses. It may be a short time before some of this technology is implantable. Brain implants may allow people who are paralyzed to operate computers or control their own or prosthetic limbs.

Deep brain stimulation, originally used widely to relieve Parkinson’s disease symptoms, may also be effective in treating some types of depression. Transcranial magnetic stimulation may also mitigate depression without many of the side effects of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT, commonly referred to as “shock treatment”). Transcranial electrical stimulation has been shown in numerous studies to increase learning rates. A new term electroceuticals has been introduced for the field of electrical brain stimulation for therapeutic effect. Brain scientists live in exciting times!