Brain researchs showing how scientists are capable to switch off brain functions

I found an interesting article from Forbes.

Here's a new tool for silencing brain regions, just a wee bit more subtle than an iron spike or a lobotomy: Ed Boyden, a neuroscientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has developed a way to shut down parts of a brain just by shining light on them. When the light is turned off, the brain switches back on--a luxury not available to Gage or H.M.

"We can now digitally turn off regions of the brain," says Boyden. "We can alter the information in the brain in a strategically useful way."

Boyden's discovery, published in the journal Nature this week, is a powerful new tool for neuroscientists struggling to understand the complexity of the brain. With it, researchers will be able to probe how the circuitry of the brain works by silencing certain very specific areas or types of brain cells and studying the effects.
http://www.forbes.com/2010/01/06/brain-neurons-control-technology-breakthroughs-light.html

For the electronic harassment victims, I think such effects are quite familiar. There are basically 3 ways to turn off an individual's thought from a certain matter.
1. send too much information to crowd the brain activity to shut it down the process. ". By electronically jamming the brain, acetylcholine creates static which blocks out sights and sounds. You would then have no memory of what you saw or heard; your mind would be a blank.'" The process would be only few seconds or even less, and you suddenly get another information or thought to handle with priority.
2. send hypnosis or commands through V2K to persuade the one to think something else. In this case, the subject receives something else to think.
3. The proton as the switch of turn on or off the activity. This is written in the article; "These protons were a surprising target: Protons are not thought to play any role whatsoever in neural activity."


The third method is probably like how we suddenly forget something that is very familiar. For example, you may be able to remember your friend's name and mobile phone number, but you may not remember the phone number of your friend's home. You know that the number is probably the same area code in the region. However, you cannot guess what it is. When the brain memory is switched off, there is no access to the data, so the brain cannot try to retrieve it from the linked clues. For example, you might the number contains two same numbers or the number is only on the right side of the keypad and so on. Such extra clues cannot comes up because the entire information is missing from your memory. The switched off state would be like something is completely gone blank and you feel that you cannot reach it somehow. But I think the above 1 and 2 are often done easier because that will help the MIB to stop turning off the brain part. If the subject starts thinking about something else, they no longer have reason to shut down the part of brain.

I hope these UFO abductees who were implanted RFID few decades ago receive compensation from the goverments and the companies making profits from the past human experiments. Also, I wish these victims of electronic harassment get respects as another human beings to stay away from such governments' covert human experiments.