The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) by the US Department of Defense has recently announced their success in the field of brain alteration. With the deep-brain stimulator, a person's reality may easily be changed.

The brain altering device was developed with funding coming from the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neuroscience project announced by former US President Barack Obama. The goal of the research is to understand the complexities of "cranial neural function."

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With a huge funding available, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency grabbed the opportunity to examine the intricacies of the human brain. DARPA's mission is to develop "an implanted, closed-loop diagnostic and therapeutic system" that would hopefully advance the treatment if not cure patients suffering from neuropsychological illness.

In 2014, the agency was awarded a $30 million grant to proceed with the development of a deep-brain stimulator. Three years after the research started, a breakthrough was published via Experimental Neurology. The main core of the advancement was focused on the identification and alteration of emotion centers.

"We don't want to make people euphoric or manic," "Happy things should make you happy. Sad things should make people sad. We want to put you back in the middle, where you can have a sort of normal range of emotions," TruNews quoted neurosurgeon Emad Eskandar.

The latest advancement funded by DARPA concerning brain function alteration works by means of electrical zaps. The brain altering device directs current to portions of the brain that determines the emotional state. Thus, altering the perspective of a subject.

Since it is still currently a prototype, the neuroscience team plans to begin human testing this year. However, the specific schedule remains to be an undisclosed.

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