You know, I've been thinking about the topic of mind control a bit. [related to what I'm writing] and it occurs to me that there's enough evidence now to formulate a hypothesis as to how the tesseract, Loki's sceptre and Bucky's aux power supply affect a person's brain.
As far as I can see as well as stimulating the limbic region it appears to affect, even suppress the prefrontal neocortex inhibiting executive functions. It sort of mimics roughly the effects of PTSD, which implies it probably has some involvement with the hippocampus as well, altering or suppressing emotional memory.
That said.. deep brain stimulation, trans-cranial magnetic stimulation or certain classes of drug would probably help [although I can see why they'd be reluctant to pursue those].. but ideally, getting rid of the power source would be better.
To which end, if I was Tony Stark, I;d be looking really hard at this research. It's somewhat out of his field, but Tony would still need to build a embedded machine interface to bridge the gap between Bucky and the new arm's nervous systems... or find someone capable of splicing nerves. [which isn't as easy as it sounds.]
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You know, I've been thinking about the topic of mind control a bit. [related to what I'm writing] and it occurs to me that there's enough evidence now to formulate a hypothesis as to how the tesseract, Loki's sceptre and Bucky's aux power supply affect a person's brain.
As far as I can see as well as stimulating the limbic region it appears to affect, even suppress the prefrontal neocortex inhibiting executive functions. It sort of mimics roughly the effects of PTSD, which implies it probably has some involvement with the hippocampus as well, altering or suppressing emotional memory.
That said.. deep brain stimulation, trans-cranial magnetic stimulation or certain classes of drug would probably help [although I can see why they'd be reluctant to pursue those].. but ideally, getting rid of the power source would be better.
To which end, if I was Tony Stark, I;d be looking really hard at this research. It's somewhat out of his field, but Tony would still need to build a embedded machine interface to bridge the gap between Bucky and the new arm's nervous systems... or find someone capable of splicing nerves. [which isn't as easy as it sounds.]