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Tried searching the archives to no avail. This does look interesting
1 posted on 10/08/2009 8:08:45 AM PDT by wastedyears
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To: wastedyears

http://www.dailytech.com/Accidental+Discovery+During+Surgery+Reverses+Memory+Loss/article10512.htm


2 posted on 10/08/2009 8:08:57 AM PDT by wastedyears (If I don't have a right to play defense, then I'll go on offense. - FReeper Enterprise)
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To: wastedyears

Cool stuff.


6 posted on 10/08/2009 8:14:08 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: wastedyears
I won't post anything here because I'm not sure of their rules.

pssst. you just did.

7 posted on 10/08/2009 8:16:15 AM PDT by the invisib1e hand (Isn't the Golden Mean the secret to something," I parried? "Yes," Blue replied. "Mediocrity.")
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To: wastedyears

Interesting...thanks.


8 posted on 10/08/2009 8:17:36 AM PDT by LadyPilgrim ((Lifted up was He to die; It is finished was His cry; Hallelujah what a Savior!!!!!! ))
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To: wastedyears

BTTT for later reading(in case I forget)


12 posted on 10/08/2009 8:24:05 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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14 posted on 10/08/2009 8:24:48 AM PDT by smokingfrog (No man's life, liberty or property is safe while the legislature is in session. I AM JIM THOMPSON)
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To: wastedyears

Sort of brings a new meaning to the phrase “getting wired”.

It would have been interesting to see this gizmo hooked up to Hillary Clinton during her testimony, “I don’t recall”....ZAP....”Why yes I did divert those funds...it was so easy!”


15 posted on 10/08/2009 8:25:57 AM PDT by DeFault User
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To: wastedyears
I won't post anything here because I'm not sure of their rules.

You mean you FORGOT? Uh oh.
18 posted on 10/08/2009 8:32:40 AM PDT by mmichaels1970
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To: wastedyears

So it stimulates the recall of long-term memory, but what about dynamic, i.e. short term, memory?


19 posted on 10/08/2009 8:33:02 AM PDT by giotto
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To: wastedyears

Total Recall


21 posted on 10/08/2009 8:36:50 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: doug from upland; Revolting cat!; Slings and Arrows

“The intensity and level of detail of the memories is frightening.” (30 years out)

Hillary Clinton has forgotten more than the courts will ever know.


28 posted on 10/08/2009 2:23:38 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (There is no truth in the Pravda Media.)
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To: wastedyears

This could be used on al Qaeda as the ultimate weapon in getting information.


30 posted on 10/08/2009 2:26:21 PM PDT by doug from upland (10+ million views of HILLARY! UNCENSORED - put some ice on it, witch)
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To: Slings and Arrows; Lucky9teen
He says the electrodes function like "turning up the volume" on the brain's memory circuits. "As we turned the current up, we first drove his memory circuits and improved his learning. As we increased the intensity, we got we got spontaneous memories of discrete events.

So maybe your life DOES flash before your eyes when you die.

Jim Morrison called it the ultimate movie.

But think how bad this experience could be...

"D'oh! I shoulda carried the 2 when I did that math test problem back in Senior year..."

"SHE WAS COMING ON TO ME!!!!"

and the other regrets that went out the window

31 posted on 10/08/2009 2:27:31 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (There is no truth in the Pravda Media.)
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Wow, electric shock therapy is back! What will they think of next?


33 posted on 10/08/2009 2:29:11 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: wastedyears

This device was originally used to correct essential tremor. It works very well for that use.
There has been more recent testing for Parkinson’s, obsessive compulsive disorder, and appetite control. The testing is not complete.

If they are stimulating memories they probably don’t have the electrode in the right spot. Cranking the voltage with incorrect placement would make me nervous.

But nice to see another possible use.

Don’t ask me any questions. I don’t think I’m supposed to comment. I just couldn’t help it.


34 posted on 10/08/2009 2:44:02 PM PDT by toast
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...

I’m glad I have begun to have memory problems, knock wood. [knock knock] Come in?


35 posted on 10/08/2009 3:59:35 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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