Jul 31, 2024 21:00:00

Technology to control animals' minds using electromagnetic waves is invented

A research team at the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) in Korea has developed a technology that uses electromagnetic pulses to stimulate specific areas of the brain for mind control. The research team has already successfully tested it on mice.

New Technology to Control the Brain Using Magnetic Fields Developed

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Many 'mind control' animal experiments have been conducted in the past, but most of them involved inserting electrodes into the animals to connect them to external systems, requiring invasive surgery, or restricting the animals' range of movement.

The research team came up with the idea of using transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), a technique used to treat neurological disorders, to activate or inactivate specific brain regions as a non-surgical mind control technique, and tried it out in mice. Specifically, they genetically engineered an 'activating ion channel' or 'inactivating ion channel' in the lateral hypothalamus , which is related to feeding behavior, and aimed to change feeding behavior by stimulating the ion channel with electromagnetic pulses.

The results of the experiment showed that mice engineered with ion channels that activate the lateral hypothalamus ate half as much when exposed to an electromagnetic pulse, while mice engineered with inactivated ion channels ate twice as much when exposed to an electromagnetic pulse.

The lateral hypothalamus is also thought to be related to sociality, and when electromagnetic pulses were applied to mice whose lateral hypothalamus had been manipulated, it was found that friendly behavior was promoted even among mice that had never met before.

In addition, they conducted an experiment to introduce ion channels into the '

medial preoptic area ,' which is known to form parent-child bonds. As a result, female mice that had electromagnetic pulses applied to the ion channels in the medial preoptic area responded strongly to the cries of their pups, and showed behaviors such as 'quickly approaching the crying pups and covering them to comfort them.'

The research team named the technology that uses a combination of genetics, nanoparticles, and magnetic fields to stimulate specific parts of the brain 'Magnetogenetic Interface for NeuroDynamics (Nano-MIND)'. Jeong Jin-woo of the research team said, 'Nano-MIND is the world's first technology that can freely control specific brain regions using electromagnetic pulses.'