A team of scientists claims to have achieved a telepathic connection between subjects thousands of miles apart.

The team led by Alvaro Pascual-Leone, professor of neurology at the Harvard Medical School, have published the results of their research that claims to have been able to send greetings from an individual in India to a group of people in France through the Internet by using transcranial magnetic stimulation and elecroencephalogram technologies.

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Telepathy is the transmission of information from one person to another without using any known means of communication. It is accomplished by sending thoughts and ideas straight from one brain to another -- but through the Internet.

"We wanted to find out if one could communicate directly between two people by reading out the brain activity from one person and injecting brain activity into the second person, and do so across great physical distances by leveraging existing communication pathways," said Pascual-Leone.

He said the Internet was one such pathway. His team began to ask if they could create experiment that would forgo the established ways of communication through the internet (such as typing or talking) and demonstrate a connection between two brains as far away as France and India.

Earlier in August, the team succeeded in sending information between the brains of test participants in France and Spain.

Pascual-Leone suggested the experiment could open to science and the real world the concept of telepathy, which only exists in the realm of science fiction.

The first confirmed brain-to-brain communication, however, was accomplished at Duke University in February 2013. In this experiment, researchers were able to establish a connection between two rats.

Four months later, researchers at the University of Washington reported the first human-to-human brain interface in an experiment where one subject's finger was controlled by another subject located at a different laboratory.

Pascual-Leone is also director of the Berenson-Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

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