Experts think that determining the electrical activity of the brain and controlling this electrical activity may be used as a treatment method in the coming periods. Identifying patterns of electrical activity in the brain can provide more information about people’s brains and bodies. Detection and control patterns of electrical activity in the human brain can be used to control what biochemistry does for the body. Currently blood samples are being examined to detect diseases. Many diseases can be detected with blood tests. Similarly, it can be possible to reveal neurological diseases as well as diseases such as schizophrenia by examining the electrical activity patterns of the brain. Neuroscientist Marcel Just and colleagues from Carnegie Mellon University use the fMRI brain imaging method to decipher a person’s thoughts. Researchers are trying to analyze the brain’s electrical activity using machine learning when a certain number or object is considered, a sentence is read, a particular emotion is experienced, or a new knowledge is learned. The electrical activity patterns obtained from studies similar to the work of Marcel Just and his colleagues can help determine what people think. In this way, people’s thoughts such as suicide can be understood by reactions to words such as “death” and “happiness”. Controlling electrical activity in brain circuits has a potential similar to the success of electrical methods in the treatment of heart conditions. Researchers are working to develop treatment for many diseases, from electrical and magnetic pulses to Parkinson’s to chronic depression. Currently, drugs developed in laboratories are used in the treatment of mental and neurological diseases. However, medications are not always sufficient in these treatments. Instead of drug therapy, stimulating the problematic nerve circuit in the brain can be a much more effective treatment method. The ethical aspects of identifying patterns of electrical activity of the brain and applying treatment through these patterns are still debated. Previous studies on the brain cause people to approach this area more shyly. However, they can offer important tools in the treatment of neurological and mental diseases with studies that will be really successful.
