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Re:Swimmers Beware of Deep Brain Stimulation by soup10 on Thursday November 28, 2019 @10:13PM (#21661719)
Full brain electrical stimulation is an obviously barbaric primitive idea that certain medical community members very vocally defend and assert the merits of. Extremely targeted and sophisticated application of electrical currents might have a legitimate role outside of quack science in the distant future, but the technology isn't there yet.
Re:Swimmers Beware of Deep Brain Stimulation by skohan on Friday November 29, 2019 @02:50AM (#21662827)
I thought it has been demonstrated to have excellent outcomes with respect to Parkinson's, is that not the case?
Re:Swimmers Beware of Deep Brain Stimulation by soup10 on Friday November 29, 2019 @07:21AM (#21663908)
it can have a lot of nasty side effects