Hacking the Nervous System

It's impossible to know if this treatment actually works, without doing a placebo-controlled trial. The article itself says that meditation has a similar effect on the vagus nerve. Implants like this have a large placebo effect, as seen from other placebo-controlled trials.

Great research. My intuition is that health science breakthroughs will come from looking at the body as a complex network management problem.

I have just finished reading Ramez Naam's Apex trilogy and I wonder if this is a step towards the future described in that book.

Url changed from http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/29/hacking-the-nervous..., which points to this, which is a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9637199, but since it didn't have much discussion, we won't treat it as such.