The Emerging Technology that i read about was Neuron Control. It's some kind of light that is shined in the brain making the neurons exposed to light which triggers electrical activity within the cell then to the next neuron in that circuit. In other words if you have depression it will change the activity in your brain causes your symptom to fade away.There already is a treatment called electroconvulsive therapy which can save a person's life, but it has caused memory loss, headaches, and other serious life changing side effects. Some assumptions are, this new technology it can treat psychiatric and neurological disorders; this will be more effective and cause less side effects. What surprised me the most is that the treatment is just the switch of light, who ever knew that light could be the cure to depression,sleeplessness, people who can't eat(not exactly eating disorders.)Some possibilities are finding cures to these disorders without doing anything major or changing your body but has a big impact on your life. When i look back in 2009 i don't believe there were many if any technologies that were considered 'Emerging Technologies.' I hope this technology makes it through to people because i feel like it could really help them and there families. When someone has depression, can't eat, or sleep that doesn't only effect that person but their family as well.This idea was brought up by Karl Deisseroth which is a physician and a bio-engineer.
http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/18289/
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