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Your use of "is" here is problematic (and that's what triggered the other responses). I guess you mean "like". That would be accurate: TMS is disrupting norma
by markhahn 1y ago
Your use of "is" here is problematic (and that's what triggered the other responses).
I guess you mean "like". That would be accurate: TMS is disrupting normal brain activity a little like ECT does. It alters consciousness because it causes a partial reboot - an altered state. Drugs (and sleep and love and anger and meditation) also cause altered states. (Not to imply that any of these altered states are the same!)
- andy99 1y agoThe “is” I meant is that it induces an electric current in the brain. I’m sure there’s some subtlety (in the temporal and spatial patterns) but whether current is flowing between electrodes or is induced from a changing magnetic field, it’s still current, the effects of which are what we’re seeing. Crucially, there is no special magnetic interaction with the brain beyond Faraday’s law, as people seem to be implying.