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Ep12 "Can we create new senses for humans?"

Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman

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The Effect of the Wristband on Tinnitus

People with tinnitus get clinically significant improvement from the wristband. The brain figures out that's fake news and it drives it down now we're doing all kinds of other experiments using the wristband for sensory substitution. We've begun to study this as a device for balance so there are many people who have problems with balance because of their inner ear they don't realize when their body is tilting. This is simply taking what your inner ear would normally do and if there's something wrong with it it's just sending it in through a different channel.

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