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    The Curious Case of a Woman Addicted to Her Brain Implant

    The Data Is In: Brain Implants Can Make You Happy
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    Image of Chip Overclock Chip Overclock
    11/12/09

    In reply to The Curious Case of a Woman Addicted to Her Brain Implant
    Another frequent SF trope. #wireheads
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    Image of J_Frank_Parnell J_Frank_Parnell
    11/12/09

    In reply to The Curious Case of a Woman Addicted to Her Brain Implant
    At its most frequent, the patient self-stimulated throughout the day, neglecting personal hygiene and family commitments. A chronic ulceration developed at the tip of the finger used to adjust the amplitude dial and she frequently tampered with the device in an effort to increase the stimulation amplitude.

    I foresee similar results when sexbots are unleashed on the world. #wireheads
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    Image of strideo strideo
    11/12/09

    @J_Frank_Parnell: Wait. Isn't this what most World of Warcraft players are like right now? #wireheads
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    Image of Ronnoc Ronnoc
    11/11/09

    In reply to The Curious Case of a Woman Addicted to Her Brain Implant
    "The 1986 case of a woman addicted to stimulating herself with a brain implant is chronicled in a scientific article from Pain journal"
    There is a magazine called Pain? That's kind of awesome. #wireheads
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    Image of Golem100 Golem100
    11/11/09

    In reply to The Curious Case of a Woman Addicted to Her Brain Implant
    Kinda like "jacking on" in Futurama? #wireheads
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    Image of Alizarin Alizarin
    11/11/09

    In reply to The Curious Case of a Woman Addicted to Her Brain Implant
    *looks at user Icon* Wait a tick....that sounds familiar. Wonder if that's where they got the idea for Garak's um..."problem." #wireheads
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    Image of Anekanta - killed by a cacodemon Anekanta - killed by a cacodemon
    11/11/09

    In reply to The Curious Case of a Woman Addicted to Her Brain Implant
    There's a short story in Spider Robinson's Time Travelers Strictly Cash where a man walks into an apartment to find a naked woman starving to death in a chair, hooked up to some kind of wire-heading apparatus. #wireheads
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    Image of amygdala amygdala
    11/11/09

    @Anekanta - Space Hippy!: Spider Robinson later adapted his short story "God Is An Iron" into a 1988 novel "Mindkiller", and admits in the afterword to borrowing the idea from Larry Niven's 1969 story "Death by Ecstasy". #wireheads
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    Image of StarkRavingMan StarkRavingMan
    11/11/09

    In reply to The Curious Case of a Woman Addicted to Her Brain Implant
    In 2004 a pain specialist developed a spinal cord stimulator that had an unexpected side effect - it produced very pleasant orgasms in women. He named in the orgasmatron after the device in the film Sleeper. Unfortunately, the thing uses electrodes that have to be implanted surgically.
    Universal health care NOW!!! #wireheads
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    Image of BoomingEchoes BoomingEchoes
    11/11/09

    In reply to The Curious Case of a Woman Addicted to Her Brain Implant
    Read this about 2 weeks ago on Gizmodo.

    I'd hate for some crazy country to get their hands on this and use it as a form of torture.. I mean, the test subject got highly addicted to the point of self mutilation.. That can't be good for the Geniva Convention.. #wireheads
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    Image of Anekanta - killed by a cacodemon Anekanta - killed by a cacodemon
    11/11/09

    @BoomingEchoes: I remember reading about something like that in a cyberpunk story--or possibly the Cyberpunk 2020 role playing game. #wireheads
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    Image of avidreader514 avidreader514
    11/11/09

    In reply to The Curious Case of a Woman Addicted to Her Brain Implant
    Reminds me of the zone implants and Morn in Stephen R. Donaldson's Gap Cycle. That poor woman... #wireheads
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    Image of Barnabus Barnabus
    11/11/09

    In reply to The Curious Case of a Woman Addicted to Her Brain Implant
    This sounds a lot like the plot of Milo Manara's Click.

    Uh, a friend of mine used to read a lot of dirty comics.
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    Annalee Newitz promoted this comment Edited by Barnabus at 11/11/09 4:35 PM Barnabus was starred Barnabus was unstarred
    Image of ineptmailman ineptmailman
    11/11/09

    In reply to The Curious Case of a Woman Addicted to Her Brain Implant
    No one is going to mention that episode of ST:TNG with that headset game that aroused you?
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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    11/11/09

    @ineptmailman: The Game! I secretly love that episode. #wireheads
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    Image of Bigdamnhero Bigdamnhero
    11/11/09

    @ineptmailman: Yep, I was. But you did first. Doh!

    Here's the trailer:
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    Image of goldfarb goldfarb
    11/11/09

    In reply to The Curious Case of a Woman Addicted to Her Brain Implant
    "This pleasurable response was heightened by continuous stimulation at 75% maximal amplitude, frequently augmented by short bursts at maximal amplitude."

    excuse me...but I believe this is my patented technique! #wireheads
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    Image of MonstersAndRockets MonstersAndRockets
    11/11/09

    In reply to The Curious Case of a Woman Addicted to Her Brain Implant
    There was a Deep Space Nine episode like this. Garak, the Cardassan tailor/spy, has an implant that he uses to stimulate the pleasure center of his brain. He uses it to get him through the misery of being in exile on the station, and when it starts to go wrong he has to go cold turkey without it. I didn't get the impression it was an orgasmic experience, but it did involve goosing the happy part of his brain. #wireheads
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    Image of Plankton420 Plankton420
    11/11/09

    In reply to The Curious Case of a Woman Addicted to Her Brain Implant
    "A chronic ulceration developed at the tip of the finger used to adjust the amplitude dial..."

    She hit the thing often enough to give herself a non-healing blister on her finger!? Wow... #wireheads
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    Image of strideo strideo
    11/12/09

    @Plankton420: Seriously, they need to make those amplitude dials more ergonomic! My finger hurts like hell and now the pain just makes me want to stimulate my thalamus even more! #wireheads
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    Image of kelvin.kw.hui kelvin.kw.hui
    11/11/09

    In reply to The Curious Case of a Woman Addicted to Her Brain Implant
    That is NOT an article in Nature, it's in the International Journal of Impotence Research, which is published by the Nature Publishing Group. IJIR isn't even close to Nature!
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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    11/11/09

    @kelvin.kw.hui: Sorry about that - fixing. #wireheads
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