{"id":447,"date":"2010-05-10T22:06:48","date_gmt":"2010-05-11T04:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/waiting.com\/blog\/?p=447"},"modified":"2010-05-10T22:06:48","modified_gmt":"2010-05-11T04:06:48","slug":"army-preps-implants-to-fix-damaged-brains-of-iraq-afghanistan-vets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/waiting.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/army-preps-implants-to-fix-damaged-brains-of-iraq-afghanistan-vets.html","title":{"rendered":"Army Preps Implants To Fix Damaged Brains Of Iraq, Afghanistan Vets"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>With an estimated 10 to 20 percent of our troops coming home from\u00a0Iraq and Afghanistan with\u00a0traumatic brain injury, the U.S. Army is trying innovative treatments to\u00a0help them, according to Wired magazine.\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/dangerroom\/2010\/05\/pentagon-turns-to-brain-implants-to-repair-damaged-minds\/\">http:\/\/www.wired.com\/dangerroom\/2010\/05\/pentagon-turns-to-brain-implants-to-repair-damaged-minds\/<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p>The Pentagon will use brain implants, brain chips,\u00a0that are meant to act as replacement parts for injured parts of the brain.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>Darpa, which\u00a0Wired calls &#8220;the military extreme science agency,&#8221; is spearheading the project. The initiative is named REPAIR, which stands for Reorganization and Plasticity to Accelerate Injury Recovery.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>The project will initially get $14.9 million for its first two years, with the money going to four places, led by Stanford and Brown University.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>There have been great leaps made in terms of understanding brain injury, with\u00a0scientists now able to create conceptual models of brain activity.\u00a0Researchers can also track the electrical pulses emitted by brain neurons, and therefore they have gained insight into how neurons communicate.<\/p>\r\n<p>The REPAIR team will use optogenetics, which entails using light particles to turn &#8220;brain circuits on and off,&#8221; according to Wired.<\/p>\r\n<p>The implants that REPAIR is\u00a0developing\u00a0will be made of electrodes or optical fibers, and will be placed on the surface of the brain.\u00a0These devices will &#8220;read&#8221; the electric signals from neurons,\u00a0and then emit light impulses to stimulate other parts of the brain to respond.<\/p>\r\n<p>So these implants are intended to take the place of brain areas that are damaged.<\/p>\r\n<p>REPAIR, if it is successful, can help more than brain-damaged veterans.\u00a0The technology can\u00a0also be\u00a0used on civilians.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With an estimated 10 to 20 percent of our troops coming home from\u00a0Iraq and Afghanistan with\u00a0traumatic brain injury, the U.S. Army is trying innovative treatments to\u00a0help them, according to Wired magazine.\u00a0\u00a0http:\/\/www.wired.com\/dangerroom\/2010\/05\/pentagon-turns-to-brain-implants-to-repair-damaged-minds\/ The Pentagon will use brain implants, brain chips,\u00a0that are meant to act as replacement parts for injured parts of the brain.\u00a0 Darpa, which\u00a0Wired calls [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[578,3,4,577,27],"class_list":["post-447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-afghanistan-and-brain-damage","tag-brain-injury","tag-brain-injury-attorney","tag-irag-and-brain-damage","tag-traumatic-brain-injury"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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