'Touching' The Brain

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday July 3, 2006 @01:50AM from the good-touch dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "Medical professionals have always dreamt of mapping the activities of the human brain in real time -- 'touching' instead of looking. Of course, modern brain scanners, such as MRI, already offer sophisticated and passive views into the human brain. But now, IST Results reports that a young Finnish company, Nexstim, has developed a non-invasive brain scanning and stimulation system called navigated brain stimulation (NBS). This system "guides the precise delivery of targeted transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) pulses to discrete brain areas." It is today the only device available for accurate prediction of the TMS stimulus location and dose within the human brain and is already in use in 20 hospitals and brain research centers worldwide. Read more for additional references and pictures about this noninvasive method for mapping and stimulating the brain."

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Obligatory by tygerstripes · 2006-07-03 01:52 · Score: 3, Funny

"What do you think you're doing, Pinky?"

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Oh yes! Yes! YESSSSS!! by Capt'n+Hector · 2006-07-03 01:55 · Score: 3, Funny

Coud this device perhaps be used in *ahem* other parts of the body with high neuron concentration?

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Re:Obligatory reply by tygerstripes · 2006-07-03 01:57 · Score: 3, Funny

Actually, I was thinking:
"The same thing we do every night, Brain..."

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Finally! by Belgarion89 · 2006-07-03 02:39 · Score: 2, Funny

Ah, at long last man will finally be able to figure out a woman's brain.