Have you ever wondered what's going on inside someone's head? It might be possible to see another person's brain outside of a laboratory setting soon. A new report published yesterday in Physics World gave us more information about the futuristic headset, which looks kind of like a headband. Bryan Johnson is wearing a headset. “Lex, what goes through a potato’s brain?” “What kind of nuts do academics eat?”
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The headset has 52 modules stuck onto four plates on the side of the head. There are six hexagonal detectors surrounding each one. Two lasers inside the source emit light at different wavelength and aim at the brain. The arrival times are recorded when the detectors pick up the reflected light.
The device uses time-domain functional near-infrared spectroscopy, which has been used in brain scans for a long time, but comes with a lot of obstacles.
The team wrote in their research published in January that the gold standard of brain scans isTD-fNIRS.
There are different goals for the studies that are running with the Flow system. The studies that use brain images to understand emotion, ketamine side effects, attention span and more could be chosen by participants. Some people give participants compensation. Before touching a human volunteer, the helmet was tested on non-human subjects.
Initial results from Kernel's studies are promising, and that it could be possible for the public to use brain scans to understand themselves and their health. There will be limitations. The helmet isn't quite as practical as a smart watch or other Wearable just yet, and the hair texture and skin type can affect results. Commercial systems that track sleep, heart rate and movement could be available as soon as 2024, which could make brain image as common as tech that tracks sleep, heart rate and movement.
It sounds like Kernel has a lot of issues to work out, but it's exciting. Any tech that helps overcome or understand mental health crises is a welcome tool.
Neuralink says 21 percent of its monkeys died because of brain implant issues.
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