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The idea of putting a chip in somebody's head invariably conjures up predictable waves of paranoid notions about mind control and the New World Order.
But as we found out in preparing today's show, that's not really the proving ground for this kind of research.
All day long -- even if we're having a frustrating day when nothing works -- our brains send out instructions that our bodies more or less follow.
It doesn't work that way for everybody . If you've had a stroke or a brain injury, if you have dementia or the really horrible parasite we'll be discussing at the end of today's show, your brain and your body may be seriously out of communion.
If a scientist could find a way to correct that problem and get your brain and body working in sync, you'd probably let him put as many chips in your head as he wanted to. And that's what we're talking about today -- a frontier of brain research in which technology helps out the mind.
