--- title: How Brain Implants Could Heal PTSD description: Using brain implants to reverse PTSD, why Syria's two wars need two different solutions and more. canonical: https://time.com/4124327/brain-implants-heal-ptsd/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-11-23T17:01:10.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:00:52.639Z article:section: Ideas og:title: How Brain Implants Could Heal PTSD og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4124327/brain-implants-heal-ptsd/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: How Brain Implants Could Heal PTSD twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # How Brain Implants Could Heal PTSD by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Nov 23, 2015 5:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Nov 23, 2015 5:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**Can brain implants reverse PTSD?**](http://www.defenseone.com/technology/2015/11/us-military-developing-brain-implants-boost-memory-and-heal-ptsd/123784/) By Mike Murphy in DefenseOne **2\.** [**Syria’s two wars require two different solutions.**](https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/syria-strategy-islamic-state-by-christopher-r-hill-2015-11) By Christopher R. Hill in Project Syndicate **3\.** [**Getting charity right means using your heart and your head.**](http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/upfront-blog/2015/1123/Getting-charity-right) By John Yemma in the Christian Science Monitor **4\.** [**A person can easily become a torturer. The hard part is becoming a person again.**](https://aeon.co/essays/an-ordinary-person-becomes-a-torturer-with-surprising-ease) By Shane O’Mara in Aeon **5\.** [**This Thanksgiving, choose to be grateful. It will actually make you feel better.**](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/22/opinion/sunday/choose-to-be-grateful-it-will-make-you-happier.html) By Arthur C. Brooks in the New York Times  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4124327/brain-implants-heal-ptsd/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4124327/brain-implants-heal-ptsd/"},"headline":"How Brain Implants Could Heal PTSD","datePublished":"2015-11-23T17:01:10.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:00:52.639Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4124327/brain-implants-heal-ptsd/","keywords":["Innovation","PTSD","torture","Charity","ISIS","Thanksgiving"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4124327/brain-implants-heal-ptsd/","name":"How Brain Implants Could Heal PTSD"}}]}] ```