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I'm curious if anyone has studied if brain activity during "awake surgery" is different in some major ways from normal brain activity (I'm not sure how you woul
by InfiniteRand 6y ago
I'm curious if anyone has studied if brain activity during "awake surgery" is different in some major ways from normal brain activity (I'm not sure how you would measure normal brain activity to a comparable degree though).
It seems like "awake surgery" is an often cited tool for understanding how the brain works, but it is a pretty extreme situation, so I could imagine for instance, maybe the stress of awake surgery has a tendency to make the mind suppress certain types of thought which might otherwise be prominent.
Not saying this is the case, but if we are going to rely on the conclusions of awake surgery for important things, we should double check the method to make sure we are not overlooking anything important.