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Brain Heatsink Could Reduce Epilepsy
SimonNight writes "Attaching a heatsink to the brain can reduce the severity of epileptic seizures, Japanese researchers say. They've developed a surgically implanted heat conduit that connects a brain region to a heatsink on the outside of the skull. Seizures get worse when they abnormal activity of brain cells overheats the brain and causes more abnormal firing patterns."
Nonononono. We've already CLEARLY proven that underclocking produces undesirable results. e.g. country music, "war on terror", wardrobe malfunction paranoia, and "for the children!!!11!1one1oneone" movement.
You can get rich if you own a politician, but you have to be rich to buy one in the first place.
Didn't Cuddy the dwarf build a "thinking cap" for Detritus the troll, with a clockwork cooling fan to help cool his silicon brain so he could think faster? There's got to be a joke in there somewhere, what with trolls, cooling fans and everything else, but I'm too lazy to put the bits into the right order. Sort of like the maths teacher who, seeing the corridor on fire and an extinguisher on the wall, returned to bed satisfied that a solution existed.
Je fume. Tu fumes. Nous fûmes!
I will attest that not all of them do.
I drink occassionally to "pep" me up, but definitely not to get drunk. It's no fun being "tipsy" and having little coordination over yourself, so I don't even want to imagine how it would feel to be completely out of it. Many enjoy that, but I personally avoid the troubles that it brings (stupid actions, hangovers, embarrassing situations, etc.)
I doubt the heatsink is contributing anything to the patients ability to regulate cranial temperature. More likely, its providing an electrical ground that helps alleviate the conditions that lead to a seizure.
I'm sure your years of research conclusively prove that those Japanese researchers are wrong.
How dare you be responsible and intelligent about something? This is the 21st century. Self-governance is out of style.
You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
I have epilepsy and have lived with it all my life. This story interests me as much as what it doesn't say, as for what it does say.
I have undergone brain surgery to alleviate my symptoms and take piles of medicine, but nothing has worked.
What I want to know are what are the side-effects from this type of equipment. The brain is a very sensitive organ. Just a few neurons misfiring out of the billions in the brain can cause seizures or other symptoms.
Stopping the brain from overheating is one thing, but stopping natural heat fluctuations in the brain may have unintended consequences.
We are talking here about the most complex organ in the body. Mess with it at your own risk, as I have discovered.
Since surgery I can barely tell the difference between different house keys, because the surgery to my right temporal lobe affected my visual memory.
If the pattern goes 9am, 10am, 11am, why isn't noon 12am?