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And for those cyberfans who view the computer as their favorite toy, there are real toys, like the 1966 Brainiac electric brain kit, designed by pioneering computer theoretician Edmund C.
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The EPOC detects and processes real time brain activity patterns (small voltage changes in the brain caused by the firing of neurons) using a device that measures electric activity in the brain.
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Over the course of a week, the electrodes were monitored to find the source of electric currents in the brain responsible for the seizures.
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This time I had a "brain pacemaker" installed, which uses wires and a battery source to stimulate deep parts of the brain with electric currents.
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He was given medicine intravenously to relieve the brain clot, and electric shocks were used to revive him but there was no substantial response.
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In a study published in October in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the researchers found that the participants no longer selectively considered just the positive information when the functioning of that part of the brain was disrupted with electric current.
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The student asked this question very gently and non-threateningly, but her directness and the fact that she was an African American woman herself caused her question to rattle around my brain like a course of electric shock therapy.
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The Food and Drug Administration just approved a hat that generates electric fields to fight a deadly form of brain cancer.
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Ultimately, doctors hope to use the disease-slowing drugs in conjunction with new brain-scanning methods being tested at General Electric and elsewhere that will detect early signs of amyloid buildup.
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These implants convert light into electric current that stimulates local retinal neurons, which then send signals to the brain, meaning no wires are necessary to stimulate the retina.
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