The Battle for Your Brain review: A guide to neuro nightmares ahead


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Will brain-sensing units enhance life or permit our minds to be monitored?

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The Battle for Your Mind
Nita Farahany (St Martin’s Press)

ETHICIST and lawyer Nita Farahany is not any stranger to neurological intervention. She has sought aid from her persistent migraines in “triptans, anti-seizure medicine, antidepressants, mind enhancers, and mind diminishers”. She has had “neurotoxins injected into my head, my temples, my neck, and my shoulders; undergone electrical stimulation, transcranial direct present stimulation, MRIs, EEGs, fMRIs, and extra”.

Few know higher than Farahany what neurotech can do for folks’s betterment, and …