Now that’s a nice Christmas morning.
Edit: It’s one of these nerdy math hats.
YAY I’M HAVING MY BRAIN MRI’D ON SATURDAY!!!
I’ll try to get pics.
Theodore Berger, a USC biomedical engineer, is working on an artificial hippocampus. The microchip goes in the brain and routes traffic properly to improve patients with Alzheimer’s, strokes, epilepsy etc.
Crazy shit. Right now they have a test bed for a “cortical prosthesis”, and Berger estimates implant use in 10-15 years.
Tomorrow I get an EEG. The object is to find out whether my disastrous brain freakouts have a measurable neurological element that might benefit from neurofeedback or other approaches. It does sound like I fit the profile for this kind of evaluation.
Neurofeedback might be recommended if this is the case; I’m not sure what else they might recommend if I have brain waves that are out of baseline.
This won’t be anything like Laura K’s ordeal; apparently it only takes an hour or so.
Even if it’s a wash, I get a map of my brain. That’s kinda cool.