iPlant 101

This video describes how to combine two well-established technologies - deep brain stimulation to the human reward system and conditional rewarding brain stimulation - to make iPlants. iPlants could provide people with artificial motivation for difficult behaviours. For more information visit http://www.iplant.eu


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Location of deep brain stimulation implants in the nucleus accumbens -- from © Schlaepfer et al (2008) Deep Brain Stimulation to Reward Circuitry Alleviates Anhedonia in Refractory Major Depression. Neuropsychopharmacology http://www.nature.com/npp/journal/v33/n2/abs/1301408a.html

Conditional rewarding brain stimulation driving treadmill running in the rat -- © Burgess ML, Davis MJ, Borg TK & Buggy J (1991) Intracranial self-stimulation motivates treadmill running in rats. Journal of Applied Physiology http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1757387

Conditional rewarding brain stimulation driving weight lifting in the rat -- © Garner RP, Terracio L, Borg TK & Buggy J (1991) Intracranial self-stimulation motivates weight-lifting exercise in rats. Journal of Applied Physiology http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1757392

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Science & Technology

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• iplant
• brain
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• deep brain stimulation
• reward
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• neuromodulation
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