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- From: mpaul@unlinfo.unl.edu (marxhausen paul)
- Newsgroups: sci.engr.biomed
- Subject: Russian electrical therapies, etc.
- Date: 2 Jan 1993 19:25:23 GMT
- Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln
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- On a recent "Nova" segment dealing with treatments for alcohol abuse, they
- depicted Russian physicians trickling electrical current into patients
- eyelids or foreheads to allegedly produce pleasant sensations akin to
- alcohol use. I've heard before of other similar uses of electricity by
- the Russians, to do things like induce slumber, etc.
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- Is this a 100% crock? What's supposed to be going on here? Are they
- running current between the cranial electrodes or from such electrodes
- to a body ground? What order of magnitude would such a signal be?
- AC or DC?
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- I'm NOT interested in experimenting or replicating this stuff, I'm just
- curious. After designing and building some EMG amps for researchers
- here, and testing them on myself, I've got a real healthy respect for
- how intense a shock one can get from even tiny currents if a good elec-
- trical contact is provided.
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