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They are not slicing while the guy is playing. Rather they stimulate electrically the area that they are about to slice to check if brain function is affected.
by simon_acca 4y ago
They are not slicing while the guy is playing. Rather they stimulate electrically the area that they are about to slice to check if brain function is affected.
- q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 4y agoAh, so it's actually a leading indicator. I guess that's obvious now that you've mentioned it, but for some reason it never occurred to me. Thanks!
- stephencanon 4y agoYeah, my wife does these surgeries sometimes, this is exactly it.
- BuyMyBitcoins 4y agoIsn’t it incredible that for how advanced modern medicine is, we’ve essentially found something so complicated that the best we can do is poke around and see what happens?
- smabie 4y agoSounds similar to programming
- stephencanon 4y agoIt's a bit more sophisticated than that; she knows almost precisely what is going to happen, but the exact boundaries of the fluent brain that she's looking for are not clearly marked, and brain moves around a little; these are not solid-state circuits, so without this check you would have to err on the side of caution, which is contrary to the goal of removing as much tumor as possible. Probing ahead of where they're going to resect is a simple and effective solution.