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MIT Shows How to Shut Down Brain With Light
An anonymous reader writes "The MIT home-page story today is about a way to use light to shut down brain activity. "Scientists at the MIT Media Lab have invented a way to reversibly silence brain cells using pulses of yellow light, offering the prospect of controlling the haywire neuron activity that occurs in diseases such as epilepsy and Parkinson's disease."
There are easier ways to shut down brain activity. 4chan comes to mind.
...that this is actually a plan to invent the Neuralizer from Men in Black?
... a scientific reason why we /.ers should not leave the darkness of our parents' basements and our computer monitors, and continue to avoid the dreaded realm known as "outside".
The MIT home-page story today is about a way to use light to shut down brain activity.
Well, I guess that's cheaper than alcohol.
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
Expect to see a lot of yellow lights at party rallies from now on...
"Encyclopedia" is to "Wikipedia" what "Library" is to "Some people at a bus stop"
Considering certain patterns of light, as found in some video games, for example, have the ability to bring about seizures and people the suffer from Epilepsy, it makes sanse that certain patterns of light would also be able to reverse that effect.
Anyone got a light for my sig?
It's called Family Vacation Slideshow.
Finally I can get a pair of tinfoil shades to go with my hat.
otherwise known as a boobtube....
welcome our new yellow light emitting overlords!
Yet another reason CFLs are better!
Another sexist topic about blonde girls !
Don't you know it is now both immoral and criminal to think beyond the next quarterly report?
Think of the applications! Time to get a pair of them tin foil glasses to accompany the hat.
GAAH! MY PRINTER IS ON FIRE!!! PUT IT OUT! PUT IT OUT!
Can't believe you missed the follow up article:
OA (Reuters) - The Guardians of the Universe held a press conference today after scientists in the MIT Media Lab announced that neural activity could be suppressed through the usage of yellow light.
Spokesperson Tom Kalmaku stated, "It's charming to see that the scientists in Sector 2814 have finally caught on to something the rest of the Galaxy has known for the better part of the past three billion years. The Corps have had to deal with the effects of yellow light since it's inception. It's a very powerful frequency in the spectrum and is difficult to counteract."
Oa's Central Power Battery has been vulnerable to the effects of yellow for some time now and the Guardians have no means of defending against it. "In the past, we tried dipping the thing in a thin, transparent blue polymer once but it didn't seem to help any." said Kilowog when prompted on the subject.
MIT is very pleased with the discovery, but currently has no means available to implement this to the benefit of epileptics and Michael J. Fox.
Additionally, an anonymous follower of Dinshah P. Ghadiali's alternative Color Therapy medical techniques was also unimpressed by the news and simply stated, "Colored light? Effect the body? Duh!"
When contacted for comment, Hal Jordan was unavailable.
"This study is great ... instead of operating on 1000's of rabbits ... they can do heaps of studies on just one rabbit"
Unless you're that one rabbit!
You ain't from round here, are you boy?
All your neuron are belong to us!
America, Home of the Brave.
Could this explain why when a traffic light turns yellow, nobody seems to notice it?
TV has been shutting all of our brains down for decades.
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Yellow light shuts down brain activity in the drivers here in Nevada quite well.
Makes them forget that a yellow light means "go slow", not "go really really really fast".
Just because it CAN be done, doesn't mean it should!