Emerging Brain Technology Assignment
Emerging Brain Technology Assignment
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Emerging Issues In Brain Technology Assignment
Read the instructions in the University of Phoenix Material: Shaping and Chaining, Reinforcement Schedules, and One-Trial Learning and select one option to complete the assignment. You can choose from the following options:
- Option 1: Environmental and Evolutionary Psychology Presentation
- Option 2: Environmental and Evolutionary Psychology Literature Review
- Option 3: Forensic Psychology Proposal
- Option 4: Forensic Psychology Literature Review
- Option 5: Health and Sports Psychology Proposal
- Option 6: Health and Sports Psychology Literature Review
- Option 7: Industrial/Organizational Psychology Proposal
- Option 8: Industrial/Organizational Psychology Literature Review
Part 2
Research an emerging brain technology that you think may be useful in the future or is currently being used in the behavioral health field. Find at least two articles.
Write a paper. Include the following in your paper:
- Discuss the ethical implications, including benefits and drawbacks to this technology
- Discuss the author’s conclusions and opinions
- Include your own opinions about the future of this technology, and whether you think it is primarily a positive or negative development
Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is an effective treatment for common movement disorders and has been used to modulate neural activity through delivery of electrical stimulation to key brain structures. The long-term efficacy of stimulation in treating disorders, such as Parkinson’s disease and essential tremor, has encouraged its application to a wide range of neurological and psychiatric conditions. Nevertheless, adoption of DBS remains limited, even in Parkinson’s disease. Recent failed clinical trials of DBS in major depression, and modest treatment outcomes in dementia and epilepsy, are spurring further development. These improvements focus on interaction with disease circuits through complementary, spatially and temporally specific approaches. Spatial specificity is promoted by the use of segmented electrodes and field steering, and temporal specificity involves the delivery of patterned stimulation, mostly controlled through disease-related feedback. Underpinning these developments are new insights into brain structure–function relationships and aberrant circuit dynamics, including new methods with which to assess and refine the clinical effects of