Brain Heatsink Could Reduce Epilepsy 181
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."
Re:Too much heat? (Score:5, Insightful)
Joke Ingredients (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:awesome! (Score:3, Insightful)
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.)
Re:Heatsink? More like a ground... (Score:3, Insightful)
I'm sure your years of research conclusively prove that those Japanese researchers are wrong.
Re:awesome! (Score:2, Insightful)
Effect on other brain functions? (Score:3, Insightful)
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.