Neural inhibitor

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"It isn't a bad thing, Macy. My mind is full of light."

―Luke Keegan while under the influence of a modified psychic dampener.^[src]

Neural inhibitors^[1][2] are implants that were used by the Terran Confederacy Ghost Program to control their ghost agents. They are also known as neuro-adjusters (some of which also suppress or reshape a disloyal ghost's memory and render them susceptible to orders)^[3] or psychic dampeners which weakens their powers.^[4] The implants can be fatal^[5] and their method of operation is very similar to neural resocialization,^[3] but "much worse".^[6] Its implantation leaves scarred tissue.^[3]

The location of neural inhibitors can be tracked by some Confederate officers.^[6]

The drawback to psychic dampeners is that they can be surgically removed^[3] or in rare cases, malfunction.^[7] Upon the defection of Sarah Kerrigan, psychic dampeners were abandoned by the Confederacy in favor of the more effective memory wipe technique.^[8] However, previously-implanted ghosts (such as Devon Starke) usually did not have their dampeners removed.^[2]

By 2503 the Terran Dominion had developed a specialized variant, the psi-inhibitor, to limit protoss psionic abilities.^[9]

Modified neural inhibitor technology continues to be used by the Church of Besainted Pelagius to enforce obedience among its disciples, the technology taken from a ghost sent to terminate the movement.^[10]

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