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TED Radio Hour

Brain Hacks

Jan 26, 2024
51:51:14
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Legal scholar Nita Farahany shares a heartbreaking experience, and guests explore topics such as rewriting traumatic memories, protecting privacy in the era of neurotechnology, the erosion of cognitive liberty, building a new type of personal computer, brain hacks and brain organoids, and living with epilepsy.
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Quick takeaways

  • Decoded neurofeedback has the potential to revolutionize the treatment of conditions like PTSD and other neurological disorders by mapping the brain's pathways and overwriting traumatic memories with positive associations.
  • Advances in brain sensing technology raise ethical concerns regarding privacy, as the collection and sharing of highly sensitive brain data, reflecting one's mental states, emotions, and thoughts, can be misused or exploited if not safeguarded properly.

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Neurotechnology and Decoded Neurofeedback

Neurotechnology has advanced to the point where it is now possible to monitor and guide brain activity. Decoded neurofeedback, for example, allows memories associated with trauma to be overwritten with more positive associations. This technique, which uses functional magnetic resonance imaging (FMRI) to map the brain's pathways, has the potential to revolutionize the treatment of conditions like PTSD and other neurological disorders.

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