The Brain-cleaner

David Jones

Nature, 1998, vol. 391, issue 6662, 26-26

Abstract: The firing of nerves occurs in a matter of milliseconds, but many aspects of brain operation can take weeks or months (learning a skill, for instance, or coming to terms with unrealistic hopes). Such tasks are based, it is thought, on slow changes in the balance of synaptic firing probabilities. Daedalus plans to speed up the system with his Brain-cleaner, which launches a highly asymmetric, ultrasonic waveform into skull. Not least of the benefits is that we'll all be able to put such emotional traumas as bereavement and failed love-affairs behind us in short order.

Date: 1998
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