Re:Researcher Controls Another Person's Brain Over the Internet
by tlarkworthy on Saturday October 19, 2013 @08:42AM
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actually they do this regularly in brain surgery. For treatment of parkinsons they place a device that stimulates the damaged part. The device can be turned on and off and the amplitude and frequency of the stimulation can be altered.
A misplacement device or wrong frequency means loss of high level cognitive function (e.g. the patient can't talk, or move part of their body). Hence this type of operation is done with the patient awake, so the surgeon can fiddle with placement and frequency knobs and ask the patient questions in real time. I have seen videos of a person losing the ability to talk, then the surgeon changing something and they can speak again. The surgeon dialled down the device and the patient started shaking from parkinsons, then turn it up and fix the shaking.
A misplacement device or wrong frequency means loss of high level cognitive function (e.g. the patient can't talk, or move part of their body). Hence this type of operation is done with the patient awake, so the surgeon can fiddle with placement and frequency knobs and ask the patient questions in real time. I have seen videos of a person losing the ability to talk, then the surgeon changing something and they can speak again. The surgeon dialled down the device and the patient started shaking from parkinsons, then turn it up and fix the shaking.