Positive Technology Journal

BCI-info is an open international platform for Brain-Computer Interface research. Hosted by BCI Lab, TU Graz, Austria, the platform aims to provide information for scientists, patients, students, the media, and people from the general public interested in BCI technology.

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In an article recently appeared on the Observer, biologist Steven Rose argues the risk of a new era of mind control. 

Concern about rising levels of mental distress have resulted in unprecedented levels of funding in the US and Europe. And a range of new technologies, from genetics to brain imaging, are offering extraordinary insights into the molecular and cellular processes underlying how we see, how we remember, why we become emotional.

Brain imaging has become familiar. Scanners, known by their initials - CAT, PET, MRI - began as clinical tools, enabling surgeons to identify potential tumours, the damage following a stroke or the diagnostic signs of incipient dementia. But neuroscientists quickly seized on their wider potential. The images of regions of the brain 'lighting up' when a person is thinking of their lover, imagining travelling from home to the shops, or solving a mathematical problem, have captured the imagination of researchers and public alike. What if they could do more?

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