Friday, October 5, 2007

health blurb

A WIRE AS THIN AS A FISHING LINE IS INSERTED through a small hole in her skull...His team has already mapped out his route using a precise 3-D reconstruction ...His target is a chunk of neurons associated with energy and mood. Within 90 minutes... Hire has two electrodes lodged in the center of her brain. Now....charge them up...two volts of electricity, enough to power a wristwatch, course through the wires...Millions of neurons bask in the electricity...Hire feels warm and flushed and then...it happens...the room looks brighter...for the first time in 20 years...Hire smiles. From popular science.