Orchid XP v8 wrote:

> 
> BTW, I find it amusing how they figured out how the brain works. 
> Apparently you can remove a living person's skull and prod their brain 
> with a small electrode, and see what it does to them. 0_0 Apparently 
> this isn't fatal, or even painful, since the brain itself is insensitive 
> to pain. [Surely your skull would hurt though??] Who the **** 
> volunteered for that one?!
They do that with patients that they operate on for brain tumors. Apart 
from scientific reasons they do that because they don't want to damage 
functional brain tissue. Basically what they do is stimulate a point and 
if the patient says he feels his feet or his thumb starts to move or he 
suddenly remembers his mother, you know you should keep that part. 
(depending of course on his relation with his mother).
> 
> (Perhaps it was the same person who volunveered for the study into the 
> common cold. They took a control group, and a group who had their feet 
> submerged in cold water for 4 hours a day. The latter group suffered 
> from more colds than the control group. WHY WOULD YOU VOLUNTEER FOR 
> THIS?!?!)
> 
money?

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