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Posted by raisinb on December 30, 2008, at 18:16:06
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/12/ingestible-chip.html
Posted by yxibow on December 31, 2008, at 6:01:41
In reply to this is interesting--would it work for psych meds?, posted by raisinb on December 30, 2008, at 18:16:06
> http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/12/ingestible-chip.html
Well I imagine its intended for monitoring the digestion and absorption rate for any medication -- the chip at 1mm thick cannot obviously penetrate your bloodstream or go into your brain (thankfully, the stroke damage would be instantaneous), but I suppose it may provide some initial research into how fast people metabolize medications and why some people are fast metabolizers of some agents (such as myself).
As for its usefulness in the grand terms of things, its still must be pointed out that we are just on the brink and frontier of exploring the brain and psychiatry in general.
What ideas such as these may pave the way for tomorrows technology, when, given politics aside, such things as stem cell technology and the like can target weakly explained or even unexplained illnesses much better.
-- Jay
Posted by raisinb on December 31, 2008, at 10:52:49
In reply to Re: this is interesting--would it work for psych meds? » raisinb, posted by yxibow on December 31, 2008, at 6:01:41
Yes, I wondered whether monitoring those things would have any impact on predicting whether a med would work or not. I'm sure I've had high blood/absorption levels of meds that did nothing for me, depression-wise.
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