Brain Implants In Soldiers Being Tested To Improve Battle Worthiness And Obviate Trauma

There is an interesting project funded by DARPA to bet chips implanted in soldiers' brains can enhance their battle worthiness and cure trauma post war, according to Fusion.

The chips are under testing. But five years more are needed to develop a prototype and sent it to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for approval.

"Of the 2.5 million Americans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, 300,000 of them came home with traumatic brain injury," said journalist Annie Jacobsen. "DARPA initiated a series of programs to help cognitive functioning, to repair some of this damage. And those programs center around putting brain chips inside the tissue of the brain."

By creating a new wireless device using implantable probes to check out the health of soldiers, electric impulses can be used, even as healing through nerve stimulation can be speeded up, according to the Daily Mail.

DARPA also believes that using the chip implants can help us to understand and develop artificial intelligence and aim for higher-level reasoning in machines so that it can rival others.

"When you see all of these brain mapping programs going on, many scientists wonder whether this will [be what it takes] to break that long-sought barrier of AI," said Jacobsen, according to HNGN.