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[naamah_darling]

FOR ART! Involving MAD SCIENCE!

Anyone have any experience with electroplay? Anyone know anyone into electroplay?

Are y'all/they willing to answer questions about what that feels like?

Stuff I have experienced:Mild charge from a hand-held defense device (I hesitate to call it a taser, because it was nowhere near that scary). Felt like tattoo

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[warclaw]

Research in that area is ongoing, with some researchers reporting remarkable results. If I was looking at that sort of depression myself, I might even consider looking around for a study to volunteer for as a lab-rat.

And yes, direct brain stimulation WOULD make a hell of a conditioning/interrogation tool. Something that your evil mad-scientist villain could use to ensure his minion's loyalty, or break the wills of his prisoners.

"My dear, I regret the necessity of this, but your paramour's efforts have become quite inconvenient to my plans. I don't wish him ill, he's such a lovely boy, really...but I really must have him out of the way for the next few weeks. Caring for you as you go through withdrawal symptoms should distract him nicely I think. Of course, we COULD forgo all that unpleasantness...all you need do is tell me where he is hiding. I'll have my men take him into custody....for his own good you understand, he might get hurt if he meddles at the wrong juncture...and that way we won't have to resort to depriving you of the stimulation you've come to crave so...."

[naamah_darling]

AHAHA! I believe you have it EXACTLY.

I actually DID look for studies recently. Nothing closer than, like, Bethesda. >:(

[warclaw]

:) I've always preferred the urbane and polite but utterly ruthless villains.

Any malign thug can break bones and burn orphanages, it takes a true Villain to do it with STYLE.

as for studies....there's this: http://www.broadenstudy.com/

Looks to be a national study, with one of the centers being in Dallas, Texas. Not so far away from Oklahoma as Bethesda.

I don't know if this is something you could do, or would want to, but I thought I'd mention it just in case.

[wetdryvac]

Dunno about lab-ratting, but a couple of the studies that hit my radar a bit back - I was digging at electro-stim via acupuncture, and ran across some of the fibromyalgia studies which were turning out some tangential effects in reduction of depression:

(Suggestive of effect)
1) http://www.archives-pmr.org/article/S0003-9993%2812%2900273-0/abstract
2) http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1526-4637.2011.01292.x/full

(Suggestive of non-effect)
3) http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.2042-7166.2012.01151_2.x/full

[wetdryvac]

*glares at the internet generally*

I know there was a non-pay-for option to that one. Hmph.

*keeps digging*