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Global Research, October 08, 2013
In
September 2013 the US National Institutes of Health ( NIH) issued an report
titled, “Interim Report: Brain Research through Advancing Innovative
Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) working group.” The report has extensively examined
President Barack Obama’s brain project, which mentions the need to develop
electromagnetic modulation as a new technology for brain circuit manipulation.
In the meantime, the weekend edition of the Guardian newspaper in London
published an article which explains that brain drugs will likely be replaced by
brain circuit manipulation; this is a huge change from drug research to brain
circuit research which is now heavily funded and taking off.
“New technologies such as optogenetics suggest that even
finer control of brain circuits may be possible,” Vaughan Bell, who is a
clinical psychologist and visiting researcher at the Institute of Psychiatry,
King’s College London, pointed in her article in the Guardian.
“While
deep brain stimulation involves stimulating the brain with electrical currents,
optogenetics involves injecting neurons with a benign virus that contains the
genetic information for light-sensitive proteins. The brain cells then become
light sensitive themselves and their activity can be controlled with
millisecond flashes of light sent through embedded fibre optic cables. Until
now, this has only been demonstrated in animals but there are high hopes that
it could lead to precisely controlled treatments in humans that intervene only
in carefully selected brain circuits,” she examined.
The
Interim Report of NIH on the other hand carefully highlighted that “directly activating
and inhibiting populations of neurons, neuroscience is progressing from
observation to causation, and much more is possible. To enable the immense
potential of circuit manipulation, a new generation of tools for optogenetics,
pharmacogenetics, and biochemical and electromagnetic modulation should be
developed for use in animals and eventually in human patients. Emphasis should
be placed on achieving modulation of circuits in patterns that mimic natural
activity.”
The
threat is real. The NIH Interim Report is another of many indications that
brain technology for neuroweapons is scientifically possible. Additionally,
some say such technologies have been used systematically against select people
in various jurisdictions. Many definitions on certain precedures and practices
have to be revisited due to the many legal loop holes that allow for real
criminals to commit illegal activities.
Our
latest issue of Torture: Asian and Global Perspectives (Volume 02,
Number 2 & 3) features as its main story, the inside story of a US mind
control project. Ms. Cheryl Welsh, who is the director of a small human rights
organization in the US, has been examining, on an in-depth level, this issue,
exclusively for us. It is a privilege for us to present her long term research
paper and we believe this will be a worthy contribution to a larger, critical
debate on the use of neuroweapons. Currently, the dialectic on the new
neuroscience programs is extremely one sided and lacking in an awareness of the
likelihood of neuroweapons; there is a great need for a more balanced dialogue
on a global level in the future as well.
Torture:
Asian and Global Perspectives is a bi-monthly magazine which focuses on torture
and its related issues globally. Writers interested in having their research on
this subject published, may submit their articles to torturemag@ahrc.asia
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Asian Human Rights Commission, 2013
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