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    Image of Bootknife-Jackson Bootknife-Jackson
    03:34 AM

    In reply to Get Ready for the Next Generation of Painkillers
    without fuzzyness OR addiction!? no thank-you!
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    Image of JojiMyers JojiMyers
    05:40 AM

    @Bootknife-Jackson: Torture? What torture? It's all in your mind...
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    Image of Bootknife-Jackson Bootknife-Jackson
    06:01 AM

    @JojiMyers: all school children should strive to methodically develop a strict drug and alcohol regiment, and stick to it.

    #calendar
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    Image of Starwatcher Starwatcher
    11/19/09

    In reply to Get Ready for the Next Generation of Painkillers
    Great. So the gov't can finally make low-grade narcotics completely illegal, as they've always wanted to do anyway. Gawd, how I hate the United States of Buzzkill.
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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    11/19/09

    In reply to Get Ready for the Next Generation of Painkillers
    But I want the brain-fuzzy part.
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    Image of EdificeComplex EdificeComplex
    11/19/09

    In reply to Get Ready for the Next Generation of Painkillers
    In principle it sounds similar to implanted neurostimulators. But if they could achieve the same results with medication it would obviously save anyone from having to have surgery to implant the devices.
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    Image of Rasselas Rasselas
    11/19/09

    In reply to Get Ready for the Next Generation of Painkillers
    The moment when I broke my leg was far and away the most painful, but about a month later, the pain of the almost-healed bones kept me from sleeping for a week.
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    Image of ManchuCandidate ManchuCandidate
    11/19/09

    In reply to Get Ready for the Next Generation of Painkillers
    I don't think this is the best way to go. As a runner, I've seen many people get reinjured or get worse is in large part because they assume their parts are fine when the body is still in the healing process.
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    Image of Chip Overclock Chip Overclock
    11/19/09

    @ManchuCandidate: This stuff will be the next sports drug to be abused. "Play _through_ the pain."
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    Image of Makidian Makidian
    11/19/09

    In reply to Get Ready for the Next Generation of Painkillers
    I will test it right now and not even ask a lot of questions. Of course I experience non-injury related chronic pain but pain killers suck and I get tired of taking them despite how much they and my other medicines help.
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    Image of mikecap mikecap
    10/22/09

    In reply to An Input/Output Device for the Brain - Made of Light, Algae, and Bacteria
    What they may also not have mentioned was that, prior to the mice being injected with the retrovirus that used blue light sensitive genes to alter their eyes, they were previously blind (as is genetically common with lab mice). So it's also basically a potential cure for blindness, or potentially a way to allow humans to see other forms of light if genes are discovered that are sensitive to say, infrared or ultraviolet spectra. #neuroscience
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    10/22/09

    In reply to An Input/Output Device for the Brain - Made of Light, Algae, and Bacteria
    This was discussed at the Singularity Summit a few weeks back... you guys should have had someone covering it! #neuroscience
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    Image of SkippyTheMarine SkippyTheMarine
    10/21/09

    In reply to Barack Obama Lowered Republicans' Testosterone
    This reminds me of a study I heard on NPR about studying in Community College. They said, the kids who studied more did better, while the kids who had to work while going to school did worse. Weird. I mean, if you focus solely on school, you did better than if you had a job?

    How much did this study cost, about a million dollars? #neuroscience
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    Image of Bootknife-Jackson Bootknife-Jackson
    10/21/09

    @SkippyTheMarine: go science! #neuroscience
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    10/21/09

    In reply to Barack Obama Lowered Republicans' Testosterone
    Why do they think they have to move on to studying sports teams? I know I've read at least 2 reports of the same thing happening to sports fans when their teams lose, from different countries.

    So, DUH... they're repeating old studies with bad methodology. I guess this is what passes for intellectual at Duke? #neuroscience
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    Image of Klebert L. Hall Klebert L. Hall
    10/22/09

    @Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.:

    I'm going to go with: for the money.
    -Kle. #neuroscience
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    Image of Aidan_ Aidan_
    10/21/09

    In reply to An Input/Output Device for the Brain - Made of Light, Algae, and Bacteria
    I tried to resist for a long time, but have now accepted that as soon as the second round of cortical implants are available I'll be first in line.

    Why second, you might ask? Well, first of all, they're gonna be fucking expensive. An iPhone cost roughly the GNP of Egypt when it first came out; imagine what a shunt in your skull that will stream the internet directly to your brain will be worth.

    Secondly, I don't need to be dealing with first-gen bugs in my wetware. Algae cultures pourin' out of your eye sockets and what-not. #neuroscience
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    Image of tnmnsquare tnmnsquare
    11/19/09

    @Aidan_: What about your kids, if you have any?
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    Image of Aidan_ Aidan_
    11/19/09

    @tnmnsquare: What about them?
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    Image of gorehound gorehound
    10/21/09

    In reply to Barack Obama Lowered Republicans' Testosterone
    hey now my testosterone didnot drop on that night cause i remember it well.
    1.i fought 4 guys and they were all big brutes but my little testosterone filled body clubbered em down

    2.after that i had sex with 3 girls all at the same time and multiple times too.

    3.i am 53 years old but i got tons of that ole testosterone #neuroscience
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    Image of TheLostVikings R.O.A.C.H. TheLostVikings R.O.A.C.H.
    10/21/09

    In reply to An Input/Output Device for the Brain - Made of Light, Algae, and Bacteria
    Yay, you used my tip. That article was pretty amazing, but I doubt I'll ever get to see many real life applications of that tech during my lifetime.

    Tough one can always hope... Gost in the Shell here I come! #neuroscience
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    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    10/21/09

    In reply to An Input/Output Device for the Brain - Made of Light, Algae, and Bacteria
    "Of course, this kind of cyborg technology is not exactly around the corner."

    Not true. Just yesterday I saw a recent piece on a two-way artificial hand and it doesn't use optogenetics. Watch the video. #neuroscience
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    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    10/21/09

    @Roklimber: Duh... I saw it right here on io9:

    [io9.com] #neuroscience
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