Neural augmentation

An embedded neural augmentation is an implanted peice of hardware designed to increase certain aspects of the user's thinking capacity in terms of memory, speed, or to reduce or eliminate symptoms of neurological disorders.

History - composition
Early chips were composed of FR4 fiberglass chips implanted through surgical work that often took hours of time. These early chips were used as early as 2008 though the exact date is indestinguishable. These chips were expensive and dangerous to use as the circuits printed on them would occasionally decay enough to short and cause permanent brain damage. This damage became known for its primary symptom and is colloquially referred to as 'the Silicone Shivers.'

Modern day chips are printed on a substrate of non-conductive plastics, plasticised tissues or medical grade silicone. They are cheaper and contain universal connections designed to reduce the number of surgeries needed to a single implant of a human-neural-hub (HNH) with access ports on the external face of the implant for easy installation removal.

Though the initial implant often takes two weeks to recover from, this is down significantly from the 6-8 weeks required for recovery after implantation of a single neural augmentation with the addition of new chipsets requiring only minutes to recover fully.

Theraputic uses
The neural chipsets used nowadays are designed to perform an array of functions from the ability to regulate sleep patterns and induce REM sleep at will, to cures for degenerative disorders as well as mental handicaps. This has allowed the near-complete recovery from most disorders.

Abuses and Illegal Use
A small number of the population of implanted users have developed an addiction to illegal augmentations designed to release horomones such as dopamine into the brain at will. To be in posession of these grey-chipsets is illegal and punishable by jail-time.