Treating depression, obesity, or Parkinson’s with magnets: a troubling experiment 🧲
Magnetic fields to control neurons remotely? A cutting-edge technology, magnetogenetics, now allows the inhibition or activation of brain circuits in mice remotely, without implants. Scientists at Rockefeller University have modified genes to make certain neurons sensitive to magnetic fields. By controlling the neural circuits linked to Parkinson’s disease, they observed a significant improvement in movement. […]
