He's a pickin'.... while they are diggin' in his brain...

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Eddie Adcock undergoes brain surgery while he's pickin' to make sure things are going well..

Check out the video and story. This may not be for the faint, but they do not show anything, other than him playing while they are operating on the other side of the curtain.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7665747.stm

 

[spartanmanor]

A pickin' and a grinnin' ...... from the pain

 

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science is so freakin amazing..

 

[thedelihaus]

Thank gawd he doesn't play the drums....

 

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LOL.. oh Paul.. leave it to you to think of that..

BTW.. I'll get you that list tonight.. I got busy once I got home last night and spaced it...

 

[mhardy6647]

Brain surgery is typically (if not exclusively) performed on completely conscious patients. Only local anesthesia is needed (no pain sensitive neurons in the brain). The surgeons like to make sure everything's OK while they're at work.

IN the 1950s and 60s (and probably right through to today) some very interesting experiments in neural mapping have been performed on wide-awake patients during brain surgery.

 

[dr*audio]

Parkinsons patients that don't respond to drug therapy sometimes undergo DBS (deep brain stimulation) where the surgeon implants electrodes in the brain, which are stimulated by a "pacemaker" type device, also implanted in the body. The operation must be performed with the patient conscious, partly so the surgeon knows if something goes wrong, and partly to locate the appropriate location for the electrode. Fascinating stuff.