I takt med att vetenskapen knäcker allt fler av hjärnans gåtor kanske tidigare obotliga sjukdomar kan behandlas. Men det finns en mörk baksida.

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Hjärnan brukar kallas "den inre rymden". Den är ett mysterium och vi vet fortfarande inte allt om hur den fungerar och varför vi beter oss som vi gör. Men det har inte stoppat oss människor från att utforska sätt att manipulera och styra den. På gott och ont. 

P3 Dystopia dyker ner i historien om militärmakter och underrättelsetjänsters drömmar om "mind control" och i de nya, banbrytande neuro-teknologierna som sägs kunna modifiera och läsa av vad som händer i våra skallar.

Medverkande

• Lone Frank - Vetenskapsjournalist och neurobiolog

• Stephen Kinzer - Journalist och författare

• Marwan Hariz - Neurokirurg och professor i funktionell neurokirurgi, Umeå universitet och University College London

• Alison Barth - Professor och hjärnforskare på Carnegie Mellon university

• Kathinka Evers - professor i filosofi på Uppsala universitet och vetenskaplig ledare för EU:s hjärnforskningsprojekt The Human Brain Project

• Jamie Walvisch - Juridikforskare på University of Melbourne, med fokus på neurojuridik

• James Giordano - Professor i neurovetenskap och ledare för programmet i neuroetik på Georgetown-universitetet

Böcker

• The Pleasure Shock - The Rise of Deep Brain Stimulation and Its Forgotten Inventor - Lone Frank (2018)

• Poisoner in Chief - Sidney Gottlieb and The CIA Search for Mind Control - Stephen Kinzer (2020)

Artiklar

• The Culture-Bound Brain: Epigenetic Proaction Revisited - Kathinka Evers (2020)

• Possibilities and limits of mind-reading: A neurophilosophical perspective - Kathinka Evers, Mariano Sigman (2012)

• Military Brain Science - How to influence future wars - Hai Jin, Li-Jun Hou, Zheng-Guo Wang - Chinese Journal of Traumatology (2018)

• The Contemporary Practice of Psychiatric Surgery: Results from a Survey of North American Functional Neurosurgeons - Nir Lipsman, Daniel Mendelsohn, Takaomi Taira, Mark Bernstein - Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery (2010)

• Deep brain stimulation for refractory obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD): emerging or established therapy? - Molecular Psychiatry (2020)

• Mind Control as a Guide for the Mind - John D. Medaglia, Perry Zurn, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Danielle S. Bassett - Nature Human Behavior (2017)

Övriga källor i urval

• China is using brain implants to treat addiction in a world-first - All Thats Interesting

• The Brain Police: Judging murder with an MRI - Wired (2009)

• With brain-scanning hats, China signals it has no interest in workers’ privacy - MIT Technology Review (2017)

• Agency Initiative Will Focus on Advancing Deep Brain Stimulation - New York Times (2013)

• Obama Administration Proposes Over $434 Million in Funding for the BRAIN Initiative (2016)

• DARPA and the Brain initiative

• Robert G. Heaths kontroversiella studie med DBS för att omvända en homosexuell man (1972)

• With new technology, mind control is no longer science fiction - Massive Science (2018)

• Det vita snittet - SVT dokumentär om lobotomi i Sverige

• Dr. Robert G. Heath: a controversial figure in the history of deep brain stimulation - Journal of Neurosurgery

• Neuralink: brain hacking is exceptionally hard, no matter what Elon Musk says - The Conversation (2020)

• Trudeau government gag order in CIA brainwashing case silences victims, lawyer says - CBC News (2017)

• Is “Neurolaw” Coming Soon to a Courtroom Near You? - Scientific American (2019)

• China is monitoring employees' brain waves and emotions — and the technology boosted one company's profits by $315 million - Business Insider (2018)

• How the CIA Used Brain Surgery to Make Six Remote Control Dogs - Newsweek (2018)

• EU border 'lie detector' system criticised as pseudoscience - The Guardian (2018)

Klipp

• Heath's Research on the Discovery of Human Brain Reward Center

• Dr. James Giordano: The Brain is The Battlefield of the Future

• The effects of DBS on the motor symptoms of Parkinson's Disease

• Deep brain stimulation treats depression (CNN)

• Jose Delgado and Mind Control

• CIA's secret brainwashing experiment: Former patients sue U.S. government - The Fifth Estate (1984)

• Clockwork Orange (1971): Aversion Theraphy

Musik

• Theme From a Graffiti Artist - Kid Loco

• Even Today - Helios

• Cliff Martinez – I’m Sick

• Marcus Bagala - Boxes: It seems forbidden

• Paul Leonard-Morgan - Anderson’s theme

• Ben Prunty - Mantis (explore)

• Marcus Bagala - Boxes: Autumnal Moping

• Marcus Bagala - Wires: Blooming

• Martin Fowler - Ships VII

• Martin Fowler - Ships XII

• Marcus Bagala - Frets: Problem, After Problem

• Marcus Bagala - Wires: Tangerines

• Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - Pieces form the whole

• Calexico - Untitled III - Remix by Two Lone Swordsmen

• Gary Lionelli - Family

• Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - Empty Places (Reprise)

• Max de Wardener - Snowflakes

• Lorn - Unraveled 

• Poddington Bear - Vibe Drive

• Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - Hand Covers Bruise

• Gustavo Santaolalla - Forgotten Memories

• Bexar Bexar - Kt

• Paul Haslinger - Reverse Engineering

• Max de Wardener - Hundreds And Thousands

• Jon Brion - Coincidences

• Marcus Bagala - Untitledthingthing

• Nine Inch Nails - 09 Ghost

• Nine Inch Nails - 06 Ghost

• Cliff Martinez - Not Leaving This Circus

• Alexandre Desplat - Syriana

• Jon Opstad - Do You Confess?

• Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - Clue One

• The Hit Crew - Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds (Intrumental)

• Frank Zappa - Who Are The Brain Police?