# crazy science 101 2012 hacking the brain

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**Created:** [September 12, 2012, 1:28pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/crazy-science-101-2012-hacking-the-brain/265020 "2012-09-12T13:28:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![pitman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4da419/32.png) [@pitman](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/pitman)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 1:28pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/crazy-science-101-2012-hacking-the-brain/265020/1 "2012-09-12T13:28:57Z")

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[ame][http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnyi-5S16Xk[/ame]](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnyi-5S16Xk%5B/ame%5D)

[http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-09/scientists-stick-false-short-term-memories-directly-rodent-brains](http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-09/scientists-stick-false-short-term-memories-directly-rodent-brains)

> **[Scientists Hijack Mouse Neurons to Take Control of Their Memories](https://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-03/scientists-hijack-mouse-neurons-control-and-manipulate-memories)**
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> In a new study with powerful implications for mental health, scientists hijacked the memories of lab mice, inducing them to form synthetic “hybrid memories” that were a combination of real experience and confused context. The work could eventually...

> **[Scientists Use Precise Flashes of Light to Implant False Memories in Fly Brains](https://www.popsci.com/science/article/2009-10/scientists-implant-false-memories-brains-flies)**
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> Neuroscientists have already spent the better part of a decade manipulating animal minds by using light signals to trigger genetically encoded switches. But a new study has now directly reprogrammed flies to fear and avoid certain smells, and all...

wow men in black ^

[ame][http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnyi-5S16Xk[/ame]](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnyi-5S16Xk%5B/ame%5D)

[ame][http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kctOHnrvuM&feature=related[/ame]](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kctOHnrvuM&feature=related%5B/ame%5D)

[ame][http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHj2RPWNIUQ&feature=relmfu[/ame]](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHj2RPWNIUQ&feature=relmfu%5B/ame%5D)

tech could be used for good or bad. usually they get used for both. or atleast history shows tech being used in both ways