Very often those brain chips that are implanted in monkeys or some humans in clinical trials for electrically stimulating nerves in the brain cause more harm than good over time:
person that couldn't control arm movement before could have better control after electrically stimulating desired area but repeated stimulation tends to cause scarring in the surrounding brain tissue. The scarring tissue isn't conductive and causes more of the brain yo be impaired over time
Cost to remove brain chip through surgery is usually unobtainable for the majority of people even with insurance. Clinical studies may cover surgery implanting the chip but not removing it. Those people have it for life.
materials in the chip may corrode over time causing unknown effects in the brain as well. There definitely has not been enough time to study a life time of effects of the brain chip material in contact with human fluids and tissue.
In this area, you always want to choose Noninvasive options (no surgery needed) over invasive options if possible. If invasive options give a little more functionality in the beginning, it is not guaranteed for the long term and the risks don't outweigh the initial benefits.
Have a mid-40’s coworker. Very likable, smart and capable person. Has a degenerative nervous disorder where he becomes physically overactive. Not epileptic, but hands and legs shake. Body rocks. It became more uncontrollable
Now due to his talents, he has risen to a Senior position in a very large company. Solid guy.
Had brain implants last year. Scars on his head look like he had horns removed; and he jokes about it now. Implants controlled by a phone app
Interacting with him today, you wouldn’t guess he has anything wrong with him at all. I call this a God given miracle. Hopefully this will allow him to live a normal life, but has restored a quality of life so he can be a father, husband and pursue a very successful career
I've researched quite a bit in this subject area.
Very often those brain chips that are implanted in monkeys or some humans in clinical trials for electrically stimulating nerves in the brain cause more harm than good over time:
person that couldn't control arm movement before could have better control after electrically stimulating desired area but repeated stimulation tends to cause scarring in the surrounding brain tissue. The scarring tissue isn't conductive and causes more of the brain yo be impaired over time
Cost to remove brain chip through surgery is usually unobtainable for the majority of people even with insurance. Clinical studies may cover surgery implanting the chip but not removing it. Those people have it for life.
materials in the chip may corrode over time causing unknown effects in the brain as well. There definitely has not been enough time to study a life time of effects of the brain chip material in contact with human fluids and tissue.
In this area, you always want to choose Noninvasive options (no surgery needed) over invasive options if possible. If invasive options give a little more functionality in the beginning, it is not guaranteed for the long term and the risks don't outweigh the initial benefits.
Have a mid-40’s coworker. Very likable, smart and capable person. Has a degenerative nervous disorder where he becomes physically overactive. Not epileptic, but hands and legs shake. Body rocks. It became more uncontrollable
Now due to his talents, he has risen to a Senior position in a very large company. Solid guy.
Had brain implants last year. Scars on his head look like he had horns removed; and he jokes about it now. Implants controlled by a phone app
Interacting with him today, you wouldn’t guess he has anything wrong with him at all. I call this a God given miracle. Hopefully this will allow him to live a normal life, but has restored a quality of life so he can be a father, husband and pursue a very successful career
I hope the best for him, it sounds like he can afford the surgery to remove the implants if he needs to and if that's the case then that's great!
He's still going to have to watch for brain scarring in the future from repeated stimulation and take periodic fMRI scans to be safe.