Ultrasound Brain "Zapping" Treatment for Gambling addiction!?

[acroman08]

So I was reading around, and this article "Ultrasound Brain "Zapping" Treatment Trialed for Substance Addiction" caught my eye. Basically, the article says that a new treatment is being developed where they can zap the reward system part in the brain using ultrasound to reduce or eliminate their cravings towards their addiction. I thought, since gambling addiction is also triggered by the reward system in our brain, this could work on that too(which they mentioned in the article too). The article also mentioned that the people who have undergone the treatment(clinical trials) have shown promising results.

I thought the article was very interesting, so I decided to share it here since someone might be interested.

A snippet from the article.

Researchers at West Virginia University’s Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute are developing and trialing a new addiction treatment called focused ultrasound (FUS) technology. This approach to addiction treatment is seen to help reduce substance cravings, even in those with severe and long-term substance use disorders.

The non-invasive procedure involves placing a helmet and goggles, worth $1 million, on the participant's head, which pulses ultrasound waves to specific areas of the brain. During this, the individual is shown images of the substances they use, intended to act as a trigger. The ultrasound waves can alter brain activity in areas associated with cravings and addiction behaviors.

As addiction develops, changes occur in the brain, particularly within the nucleus accumbens, which plays a key role in the brain’s reward circuit and impacts motivation and pleasure-seeking. This new technology is designed to specifically target this area, reducing the changes caused by addiction.

[yahoo62278]

Sounds like a bunch or crap to me. Let's say it does work though, what else does a person risk losing when they zap your brain? I would rather not take this sort of risk without having more information as it could have devastating effects that weren't desired.

[Callido]

This is the worse way i can think of treating gambling addiction. 

I preferably take addiction else where to be controlled, at least a therapist also works in the mind controlled by the brain.

Imagine spending $1 million on treatment for something that can be stopped with no money, just determination and following the right instructions, meanwhile those addicted haven't spent a total of the amount while addicted.

[acroman08]

Sounds like a bunch or crap to me. Let's say it does work though, what else does a person risk losing when they zap your brain? I would rather not take this sort of risk without having more information as it could have devastating effects that weren't desired.

I mean, from the looks of it, it is still in its early stages since they are still in clinical trials, I'd assume it will take years before they can actually give a more concrete findings on the side effects or how risky it is, but from what the article has told, the procedure is non-invasive and the result it produced from the people who went under this procedure show promising result(according to the article).

[freedomgo]

This is still in the experimental stage and not yet FDA-approved, so I wouldn’t hype it too much just yet. It’s still better if we train our minds naturally, it all comes down to how we handle our emotions.

Once you start relying on machines, you never really know the long-term side effects. What if years later, you’re no longer addicted, but then you discover there’s damage to your brain? That’s the scary part, at least for me.

And like I said, this concept has been around i think since 2002.. it’s been decades, and it still hasn’t been approved.
That says a lot.

[Cantsay]

I made a post about the "Nucleus Accumbens" in altcoinstallks and that's the part of the brain that drugs of abuse hijack that leads to dependency or addiction, and from the article you shared - they mentioned the Nucleus Accumbens, and I know a lot of people already think that this is crap because of the "zapping" in the title. If there is a safer way to interact with the Nucleus Accumbens to alter it and return it back to the original state before addiction, then I think gambling addiction could be treatable.

But I don't think it's currently possible to put a stop to the memory encoding that comes from the pleasure of gambling, which causes the dependency if gambling but like I said, if a method that is safe and has undergone clinical trials can be prepared, then that treatment will be a possibility. For now I doubt that this current one will be successful, especially because of the side effects that will accompany unsafe tampering of the nucleus accumbens.

[STT]

Reminds me of some terrible xray like weapon the Russians came up with to interfere with diplomats and people they suspected of being spies, operated through the walls of hotels.  They would fire some high frequency energy transmission through the wall and cause harm to the person sleeping with the denial that anything happened.    Since its new technology no doubt it can be used for good or bad but I would mostly fear the possible worst outcomes of such usage.
    Better to cure yourself, develop patience and control over time do your best to avoid the temptation as per all addictions that people have to deal with.  The problem with addiction is it can transfer to another forms as I understand it so best to end or control it yourself if possible.

[tread93]

So I was reading around, and this article "Ultrasound Brain "Zapping" Treatment Trialed for Substance Addiction" caught my eye. Basically, the article says that a new treatment is being developed where they can zap the reward system part in the brain using ultrasound to reduce or eliminate their cravings towards their addiction. I thought, since gambling addiction is also triggered by the reward system in our brain, this could work on that too(which they mentioned in the article too). The article also mentioned that the people who have undergone the treatment(clinical trials) have shown promising results.

I thought the article was very interesting, so I decided to share it here since someone might be interested.

A snippet from the article.

Researchers at West Virginia University’s Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute are developing and trialing a new addiction treatment called focused ultrasound (FUS) technology. This approach to addiction treatment is seen to help reduce substance cravings, even in those with severe and long-term substance use disorders.

The non-invasive procedure involves placing a helmet and goggles, worth $1 million, on the participant's head, which pulses ultrasound waves to specific areas of the brain. During this, the individual is shown images of the substances they use, intended to act as a trigger. The ultrasound waves can alter brain activity in areas associated with cravings and addiction behaviors.

As addiction develops, changes occur in the brain, particularly within the nucleus accumbens, which plays a key role in the brain’s reward circuit and impacts motivation and pleasure-seeking. This new technology is designed to specifically target this area, reducing the changes caused by addiction.

Oh wow, this is really interesting.... and also scary at the same time. I think these companies are setting themselves up for a lawsuit. Its only a matter of time before something goes wrong and they mess up more than just the reward system, maybe they accidentally fry someone's brain!!! Talk about being cooked lol

[cryptoaddictchie]

Expensive treatment I supposed. For me if ever Id become addicted to gambling and needed some solution on my case, Id still go for the natural way or therapy or talking to anyone who could help me ease that cravings for playing or gambling. From the word zap your brain, I feel this practice arent really common and maybe not yet utilized globally or recommended for anyone.

[memehunter]

I thought, since gambling addiction is also triggered by the reward system in our brain, this could work on that too(which they mentioned in the article too).

The consequences of Substance Addiction and Gambling Addiction are quite different. No ultrasound/xray/gamarays  can fix the $100k loan that one took and lost in gambling. I like the name FUS, though, a cool marketing gimmick.

The non-invasive procedure involves placing a helmet and goggles, worth $1 million,

How about some popular casino's branding on that helmet, 

[Ivystar5]

In my opinion this sounds like take this and stand a chance tooss everything including the one I'm offing you now, because the kind of side effects that zapping someones brain can result to could be more deadly than the gambling addiction itself that one might have, it's even better to live with gambling addiction than to get a result at the end that everyone including the doctors will regret!

The result they expect from the tested persons are showing signs of improvement which means it's not done yet and not proven. However I also thought that, how many people that are getting addicted to gambling or anything would be able to afford such brain treatment? so it's basically a thing for some and nothing all.

[kotajikikox]

So I was reading around, and this article "Ultrasound Brain "Zapping" Treatment Trialed for Substance Addiction" caught my eye. Basically, the article says that a new treatment is being developed where they can zap the reward system part in the brain using ultrasound to reduce or eliminate their cravings towards their addiction. I thought, since gambling addiction is also triggered by the reward system in our brain, this could work on that too(which they mentioned in the article too). The article also mentioned that the people who have undergone the treatment(clinical trials) have shown promising results.

This sounds like a lawsuit in waiting. First of all, I do not want to involve myself in anything related to altering the brain especially if there is some procedure like this involved. It was also mentioned that it targets a region of brain for pleasure. But this will mean that not only the addiction part goes, that part of your brain disappears too. The patient might never feel pleasure again, won't they?

[Fivestar4everMVP]

So I was reading around, and this article "Ultrasound Brain "Zapping" Treatment Trialed for Substance Addiction" caught my eye. Basically, the article says that a new treatment is being developed where they can zap the reward system part in the brain using ultrasound to reduce or eliminate their cravings towards their addiction. I thought, since gambling addiction is also triggered by the reward system in our brain, this could work on that too(which they mentioned in the article too). The article also mentioned that the people who have undergone the treatment(clinical trials) have shown promising results.

I thought the article was very interesting, so I decided to share it here since someone might be interested.

A snippet from the article.

Researchers at West Virginia University’s Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute are developing and trialing a new addiction treatment called focused ultrasound (FUS) technology. This approach to addiction treatment is seen to help reduce substance cravings, even in those with severe and long-term substance use disorders.

The non-invasive procedure involves placing a helmet and goggles, worth $1 million, on the participant's head, which pulses ultrasound waves to specific areas of the brain. During this, the individual is shown images of the substances they use, intended to act as a trigger. The ultrasound waves can alter brain activity in areas associated with cravings and addiction behaviors.

As addiction develops, changes occur in the brain, particularly within the nucleus accumbens, which plays a key role in the brain’s reward circuit and impacts motivation and pleasure-seeking. This new technology is designed to specifically target this area, reducing the changes caused by addiction.

From what I understand from this part of the article you have shared, this is absolutely a very good development and would bring a lot of healing to our society in terms of curing addiction on various things and activities like drugs, gambling, porn and mastubation and so much more.

But my question right now is, if the said helmet that will be placed on the patient's head cost $1 million dollars, how many of this addicts can afford such an amount of money to undergo such treatment? If something is developed to treat a particular kind of sickness, and yet the patients suffering from that sickness can't afford the treatment to, of what us is the development in the first place?
When ever this addiction treatment goes live, the cost is what those in charge will have to look into and make sure it's affordable for all.

[maydna]

I don't want my brain zap by electricity because I can not imagine what will happen in the future. There must be an effect to the brain but perhaps, that will work for a heavy addicted people to gambling or drugs.

Meanwhile, because the technology still in development, they can use the prevention by limiting themselves from playing gambling. This method can also work but need discipline and strong mind to block the will to playing gambling.

You can try other way such as hypnotize yourself to block gambling forever and make you forget it. But no matter of the way you want to use, you must have awareness to leave gambling. That is the important thing you should have first.

[shield132]

Sounds like a bunch or crap to me. Let's say it does work though, what else does a person risk losing when they zap your brain? I would rather not take this sort of risk without having more information as it could have devastating effects that weren't desired.

Ultrasound brain zapping is a new thing for me to hear but I know about another brain zapping therapy that's called electroconvulsive therapy. This therapy induces a controlled seizure in the brain using electrical currents. It's mostly used for the treatment of treatment-resistant depression. I believe that ultrasound brain zapping is not crap if it's a mild form of electroconvulsive therapy but I'm personally afraid of such things. Messing with your brain comes with serious consequences, especially when you zap it. Working on self-control is a much safer and better thing to do to my mind.

[bubilas]

This solution sounds like part of the solution to the problem of severe gambling addiction, because the problem itself consists of two halves. The first part is psychological, and the second is physical (I would even say chemical).
Yes, let's say you can cure the part of the brain that is responsible for getting pleasure when a person plays, for example, slot machines. But this same part of the brain is responsible for any other natural pleasures.
Therefore, the individual's perception of the world will be changed.

[alani123]

When something is still being studied, it can have several drawbacks. It's generally not recommended to try experimental treatments unless you're at a terminal state.

I would say though, gambling addiction has several effective treatments that are proven to work well. You can enter into counseling and see great results. More importantly it's good to build a community around yourself and fill your time with meaningful activities even outside of counseling.

Millions of addicts have seen the light this way. You can get the support you need too.

[GigaBit]

I had also heard about this treatment. Currently, scientists are conducting research on this new treatment. In the meantime, they have received good results in treating addicted people. There are almost no side effects. Since this type of treatment is expensive, many people cannot afford it. However, it is hoped that if it gives good results, many people may accept the service. However, I think that since it is a matter of the brain, it is better if a gambler can control himself naturally. Gambling addiction and drug addiction are two different things. If a gambler wants to come back considering his condition, I think it is not difficult. There are many gamblers who were addicted in the beginning and have now recovered from that addiction.

[blockman]

I firstly thought of hyphothalamus but it's a different part of the brain but it also has functions. We've got neuralink brain chip too. So, I think that with science and human knowledge, it's possible to do this treatment and can modify someone's brain. Amazing but at the same time worrying. I cannot fathom if I am one of the gambling addicts being put into that treatment. I don't even know if I'll survive with this treatment. Ultrawaves going to our brains, sounds interesting but I'll pass on that. I'll just go with the traditional way than this. Maybe for the severe ones, they can treat super addicted gamblers but at what cost?

[hyudien]

For a moment I thought blasting ultrasound waves into specific areas of the brain felt like torture. Okay let's say it works to reduce gambling addiction but given the high cost of this treatment, is it worth it? or will there be side effects for our bodies someday? I prefer natural treatments to reduce addiction such as professional counseling or meditation.