An article from Yahoo news.
The process is called DBS, deep brain stimulation, which administers small electric jolts in an effort to control certain brain disorders like Parkinson's. Small devices are actually inserted into the brain to deliver the current, akin to packmakers for hearts.
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I'm pretty sure there's an external electronic brain stimulation device you can buy without even a prescription for depression, pain...I think a few other things, too.
I don't know if it works, though, and I might just be imagining its existence.
I don't know if it works, though, and I might just be imagining its existence.
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the difference between evidence and sources: whether they come from the horse's mouth or a horse's ass.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
the difference between evidence and sources: whether they come from the horse's mouth or a horse's ass.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
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There was a novel by Colin Wilson where the protagonists, while carrying out certain experiments, manage to leave pieces of a certain metallic alloy in someone's brain; the electrical properties of the metal gives them psychic abilities, leading them to uncover ancient alien presences on the Earth. I can't recall the name of the novel, though.
I saw an article recently about a guy who has built a "thinking cap", which magnetically damps the left hemisphere, allowing you to use more right-hemisphere thinking to intuitively solve problems.
The use of rTMS (repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation) for treating certain types of brain disorders and/or injuries like aphasia have long been used, but researchers are now looking into other uses for it.
There was a novel by Colin Wilson where the protagonists, while carrying out certain experiments, manage to leave pieces of a certain metallic alloy in someone's brain; the electrical properties of the metal gives them psychic abilities, leading them to uncover ancient alien presences on the Earth. I can't recall the name of the novel, though.
I saw an article recently about a guy who has built a "thinking cap", which magnetically damps the left hemisphere, allowing you to use more right-hemisphere thinking to intuitively solve problems.
The use of rTMS (repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation) for treating certain types of brain disorders and/or injuries like aphasia have long been used, but researchers are now looking into other uses for it.
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