On Tue, 01 Feb 2000 17:59:42 GMT, Marco de Innocentis
<mdeinnocentis at hotmail.com> wrote:
>In his book "Phantoms in the brain", V.S. Ramachandran writes
>about a device called a transcranial magnetic stimulator, which,
>in his words, is 'relatively easy to construct' and can stimulate
>any part of your brain. If this is true, then why has such a
>device not been used for commercial purposes so far? Is it because
>its use can be dangerous?
>>Marco
>UK TV program "Tomorrows World" had a feature about using a
transcranial magnetic stimulator to treat depression. The work was
being done in Italy. The information may still be available on the web
site www.bbc.co.uk/tw but it was a few years ago so it may now have
been removed.
Steve
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