this post was submitted on 05 Dec 2023
102 points (94.7% liked)

Technology

59091 readers
5522 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
102
Brain implant improves cognition 15-52% in safety trial for TBI patients (www.newscientist.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
5 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 39 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Here is an awesome thing that's so cool it sounds unreal, and still the title is a massive lie. They performed one simple test better.

Awesome that this is even a possibility though

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It's science reporting and not immune to headline inflation, but it's not a lie to say there were measured improvements to patient cognition.

There's a developing consensus that electric stimulation has therapeutic potential in restoring brain function (from basal ganglion to transdermal stim). But if you want the full study findings here, I course this article because it looks the DOI address at the bottom.

Given how few (none) treatments they're are for TBIs right now, this is pretty exciting stuff to me at least.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Also, if it was the same test, everyone does better on a test they've taken before. They should have also tested 6 regular people that never had tbi's to see how they compared.