• more about #brainimplants more comments →
    Chip Overclock: Another frequent SF trope. #wireheads more »
    J_Frank_Parnell: At its most frequent, the patient self-stimulated throughout the day, neglecting personal hygiene and family commitments. A chronic ulceration develop... more »
    Ronnoc: "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 mag... more »
    Golem100: Kinda like "jacking on" in Futurama? #wireheads more »
    Alizarin: *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 more »
    Anekanta - Go Play!: 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... more »
    StarkRavingMan: In 2004 a pain specialist developed a spinal cord stimulator that had an unexpected side effect - it produced very pleasant orgasms in women. He nam... more »
    BoomingEchoes: 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... more »
    avidreader514: Reminds me of the zone implants and Morn in Stephen R. Donaldson's Gap Cycle. That poor woman... #wireheads more »
    Barnabus: 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. more »
    ineptmailman: No one is going to mention that episode of ST:TNG with that headset game that aroused you? more »
    goldfarb: "This pleasurable response was heightened by continuous stimulation at 75% maximal amplitude, frequently augmented by short bursts at maximal amplitud... more »
    MonstersAndRockets: 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 br... more »
    Plankton420: "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-h... more »
    kelvin.kw.hui: 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... more »
  • #brainimplants

    The Curious Case of a Woman Addicted to Her Brain Implant

    One of the cutting-edge cures for chronic muscle tremors is called a thalamic stimulator - it's a brain implant that delivers current to your thalamus. But it can also cause intensely pleasurable erotic feelings, leading one woman into implant addiction. More »
  • #madneuroscience

    The Data Is In: Brain Implants Can Make You Happy