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I was watching this video of Elon musk talking about his new neuralink tech.

 

he seems to talk about how it could be used to calm brain pathways down such as in epileptics. 
 

give it a watch and see what you think, possible future cure if the pathology for hppd / visual snow is discovered? 
 

anyways hope everyone’s doing ok. Just thought I’d share here to hear some thoughts.

 

 

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Okay, I'm going to block out of my head my utter contempt and hatred for Elon Musk as a human being and think about what he is saying. 

 

I've seen some videos on implants helping people with severe motor disabilities and I think it's right to look into all avenues of helping these people out.  If this neural chip technology works, I am all for it.  But HPPD is not even understood on the chemical level and is so nonlinear and nonlocalized as to render some computer chip panacea as complete nonsense at this time, if you ask me.  You are right in this sense to write possible cure "if the pathology is discovered".  If we had some problem specific to the cerebellum, for example, I can see how some regulated stimulation to that part of the brain could help us out.  From everything I've read, however, the issue we are experiencing is either global and/or tied to interneural serotonin receptors in the visual cortex and thalamus. 

Since most hallucinogens are illegal, and there is no money to be made by curing HPPD sufferers, our current hope of any cure is as a secondary consequence of medication used for other purposes, i.e. epilepsy and visual snow.  But the pathophysiology may be different.  We need an Einstein of neuroscience to figure this out and the equation could possibly be simple, we just need to figure it out.

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1 hour ago, yarkadin said:

Okay, I'm going to block out of my head my utter contempt and hatred for Elon Musk as a human being and think about what he is saying. 

 

I've seen some videos on implants helping people with severe motor disabilities and I think it's right to look into all avenues of helping these people out.  If this neural chip technology works, I am all for it.  But HPPD is not even understood on the chemical level and is so nonlinear and nonlocalized as to render some computer chip panacea as complete nonsense at this time, if you ask me.  You are right in this sense to write possible cure "if the pathology is discovered".  If we had some problem specific to the cerebellum, for example, I can see how some regulated stimulation to that part of the brain could help us out.  From everything I've read, however, the issue we are experiencing is either global and/or tied to interneural serotonin receptors in the visual cortex and thalamus. 

Since most hallucinogens are illegal, and there is no money to be made by curing HPPD sufferers, our current hope of any cure is as a secondary consequence of medication used for other purposes, i.e. epilepsy and visual snow.  But the pathophysiology may be different.  We need an Einstein of neuroscience to figure this out and the equation could possibly be simple, we just need to figure it out.

Hey some great observations there, (I am also completely ignoring the politics )do you think that this device could in some way have an effect on the seretonin receptors you mentioned? Sorry I’m not very clued up on the brain stuff it was just a thought.

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3 hours ago, dom said:

Hey some great observations there, (I am also completely ignoring the politics )do you think that this device could in some way have an effect on the seretonin receptors you mentioned? Sorry I’m not very clued up on the brain stuff it was just a thought.

It depends on what device we are talking about.  Currently nothing like that exists.  It may make sense for us to try some device custom-tailored to mitigate or eliminate visual snow, for instance, since that's probably the first thing that will be "cured" that bears any relationship to our ailment, but the probability of treatment success must be very high to perform such a risky procedure, at least from my perspective.  Who would voluntarily experiment, without any assurances of complete or partial recovery, with something as invasive as cranial surgery?  Some others here who are really suffering hard from HPPD may disagree, however...

I'd be curious to hear what others say on the board.

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