Elon Musk’s Neuralink Looking to Treat Tinnitus

I HAVE DONE IT!

 

Would you be willing to have Neuralink implanted in your brain?

 

Yup.

 

Yes.

 

I wouldn't want to be in the clinical trials, but I'd do it tomorrow if it proved safe and effective.

 

Yes.

Best case scenario: No more of this blaring, droning hell.

Worst case scenario: It malfunctions, I die, and no more of this blaring, droning hell.

I call that a win-win.

 

Let's hope everyone does not take this attitude.

 

I imagine if I were paraplegic, I’d have a different attitude towards risk.

 

If there were a viable/safe upgrade path to replace the clinical tech with the commercial end-product, I would perhaps be willing to participate.

Although, as of now, I don't think they'll be experimenting with treating tinnitus anytime soon.

 

OK, that's a no on Neuralink. Would you have a Neurosoft implant done?

 

I mean, I’d be down with brain surgery in general, understanding that there is some risk, but at the end of the day, destructive as tinnitus has been to my experience of living, if you are going to start cutting and putting wires into my brain I want to understand the odds on the downside. If you muck up the brain, you can end up with problems you haven’t even dreamed of yet.

All that being said, I don’t know Neurosoft. Is it less cut your skull open and put wires into your brain-ish?

 

Neurosoft aims to implant soft, flexible electrodes in order to electrically stimulate specific brain structures – which hopefully suppresses tinnitus.



It's a like a mesh overlay that's draped across the brain or, in some cases, folded into a sulcus of the brain (if I'm not mistaken).

 

PRIME Study Progress Update — Second Participant

The second patient is already playing Counter-Strike. According to Elon, in a couple of years, there will be hundreds of people; in five years, there will be thousands; and in 10 years, there will be millions.

 

Wow, this is awesome.

 

The Counter-Strike thing is cool, but please note it doesn't let the second patient fully operate the game.

It seems to let him control one of the inputs: the cursor to look around. The other inputs, such as movement, still have to be controlled with a mouth-operated input device.

Nevertheless, the article does state that they're working on expanding these capabilities – which is highly interesting. Playing a shooter is pretty complex because dozens of different user inputs occur in rapid succession.

I'm curious to see at which rate this will develop.

The article also mentions that they've improved thread retraction. Hopefully, they'll reach a point where the long-term risk of retraction is fully eliminated.

 

Sign me up! I'd be over the moon if they could also sort out noxacusis/hyperacusis and visual snow syndrome.