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Figure 2
How TMS Therapy Works
The short pulses of magnetic energy produced by NeuroStar TMS Therapy Systemâ„¢ are aimed by the treating clinician at the structures in the brain thought to control mood. (See Figure 1, Limbic System Structures, many of which are thought to be involved in mood regulation). The left prefrontal cortex (Figure 2) is used to access these structures non-invasively from outside the brain with TMS Therapy. The unique nature of magnetic fields allows them to pass through the skull and into the cortex without being distorted in any way. This facilitates a very focal type of stimulation, minimizing stimulation of brain tissue not involved in mood.
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Ok this does not hurt , but it is so unfair , imagine haveing the parts of your brain that are enableing you to resist questioning being temporailily shut down.
In the near future , it will become impossible to lie, to keep a secret or even keep silent when interrogated.
Imagine "Cool hand Luke"
but give the guy in the silver glasses a door into Lukes Skull.
We are getting there , and when we get there we might miss the torture.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060920/sc_nm/science_fear_dchttp://www.cerebromente.org.br/n17/opinion/millenium.htmlYet, despite the accumulation of vast amounts of factual knowledge about the brain (about 10 ,000 papers are presented every year at the Society for Neuroscience meetings) even the most BASIC questions about our minds remain unanswered. What is the will? What is the " self"? Why do I have the sense of a single person who endures through time and space ? What is consciousness? Why do we laugh-make rhythmic head movements and vocalizations in certain situations? Why do we cry ? ( Why the salty liquid flowing down my cheeks?) Why do we dance? What is the meaning of art? Why music? Why do we dream? Why do we even sleep?
But I will venture the prediction that all this will change in the next hundred years. By asking the right kinds of questions and doing the right kinds of experiments we can begin to answer these lofty questions which have until now remained the preoccupation of philosophers.
http://www.cerebromente.org.br/n02/tecnologia/radiocirurg_i.htmhttp://www.wiley.com/legacy/products/subject/life/anatomy/anat_hbm.htmlOne of the newest avenues of research into the mind-body relationship has nothing to do with religious ritual, ethnobotany, or tinkering with brain chemistry. It's about altering the way the brain behaves on the most basic level -- the electrical impulses that constantly stream from neuron to neuron.
http://www.erowid.org/tech/devices_article1.shtml Transcranial magnetic stimulation is safe and noninvasive means of getting electrical energy across the insulating tissues of the head and into the brain. A powerful and rapidly changing electrical current is passed through a coil of wire applied near the head. The magnetic field, oriented perpendicular to the plane of the coil passes virtually unimpeded through the scalp and skull. In the brain, the magnetic field produces currents in the induced electrical field lying parallel to the plane of the coil.
These currents are able to excite axons lying in the plane of the induced field in a manner roughly analogous to direct cortical stimulation with electrodes.
TMS has been used as a probe of cortical cortical function in clinical and basic neurophysiology and as a means of altering cortical function. There is evidence that some effects of repetitive TMS (rTMS) may be of benefit in brain disorders, for instance, depression.
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