Total coincidence, this just came out today
I especially like this section, on brain hacking history:
~43 AD: Roman physician Scribonius Largus pens Compositiones Medicamentorum, in which he describes using the bioelectric torpedo fish to treat headache and gout.
11th century: Persian physician Ibn-Sidah suggests using electric catfish to treat epilepsy.
1783: An electrical accident causes physician Jan Ingenhousz to partially lose his memory, but it also makes him strangely happy. In a letter to Benjamin Franklin, with whom he corresponded, Ingenhousz calls for clinical trials into the use of electricity to improve mood.
1890: William James first suggests that the human brain can change over time in The Principles of Psychology. Previously, it was believed that brains were fixed with innate abilities, and that you basically couldn’t teach an old dog new tricks.
1938: Electroshock therapy is introduced by Italian psychiatrists Ugo Cerletti and Lucio Bini.
1948: Polish neuroscientist Jerzy Konorski coins the term “neuroplasticity,” a reference to the malleable nature of the brain.
1964: The first academic article showing cognitive benefits of neurostimulation is published.
1987: French neurosurgeon Alim Louis Benabid uses deep-brain stimulation to calm the tremor in a patient with Parkinson’s.
2000: Eric Kandel wins the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for his work showing how nerve cells communicate using electrical and chemical signals, prompting wider interest in neuroplasticity.
2017: The FDA approves the NSS-2 Bridge, the first electric stimulation device approved to treat opioid withdrawal.
Future Human 