Scientist to Implant Electrode in His Own Brain?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday February 15, 2006 @04:46AM from the self-sacrifice-for-science dept.

BartlebyScrivener writes to tell us the MIT Technology Review is reporting that even thought scientists know quite a bit about the brain, one researcher is trying to take it a step further towards understanding consciousness by implanting an electrode in his own brain. From the article: "Bill Newsome, a neuroscientist at Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA, has spent the last twenty years studying how neurons encode information and how they use it to make decisions about the world. In the 1990s, he and collaborators were able to change the way a monkey responded to its environment by sending electric jolts to certain parts of its brain. The findings gave neuroscientists enormous insight into the inner workings of the brain."

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This Reminds me by kev0153 · 2006-02-15 04:53 · Score: 0, Redundant

"Egon, this reminds me of the time you tried to drill a hole through your head. Remember that?"

"That would have worked if you hadn't stopped me."
Do these scientists read SF or go to the movies? by FrankieBoy · 2006-02-15 05:10 · Score: 0, Redundant

Remember how Terminal Man turned out?
Ghostbusters? by tsandholm · 2006-02-15 06:24 · Score: 0, Redundant

Geeze, this sounds like Ghostbusters...???

Dr. Peter Venkman: Egon, this reminds me of the time you tried to drill a hole through your head. Remember that?

Dr. Egon Spengler: That would have worked if you hadn't stopped me.
If the braing were simple enough to understand by dbbd · 2006-02-15 21:59 · Score: 0, Redundant

If the brain were simple enough to understand, we would have been too stupid to understand it.