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- From: sfm@manduca.neurobio.arizona.edu (Stephen Matheson)
- Newsgroups: sci.bio
- Subject: Re: Bio-electricity of the Brain
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.055646.11369@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 05:56:46 GMT
- References: <1993Jan26.215036.19365@dale.ksc.nasa.gov>
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- Organization: University of Arizona UNIX Users Group
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- From article <1993Jan26.215036.19365@dale.ksc.nasa.gov>,
- by rramser@dale.ksc.nasa.gov (Rusty Ramser):
-
- > (I'm assuming that by the name of this newsgroup, you
- > all are a medical and/or biology-based discussion group.
- > This looked like the most appropriate newsgroup to post
- > this question because of that.)
-
- Oh no! I've been sucked in! Well, while I'm here...
-
- > I am reading a type of sci-fi book that describes a
- > certain type of psychic attack in the following way:
- > "It is a massive assault upon all neurons in
- > the brain, attempting to destroy all by a
- > massive overload of signals."
-
- > What does this sound like to you medically-oriented
- > people?
-
- Sounds like one mean case of epilepsy.
-
- > Would this type of attack cause any real
- > physical damage to the brain or other parts of the
- > body? Would there be psychological or serious
- > brain damage?
-
- Yes. Yes. In some cases, anyway. "A massive assault
- upon all the neurons of the brain" sounds like a pretty
- damaging seizure.
-
- --
-
- Steve Matheson Program in Neuroscience University of Arizona
- sfm@neurobio.arizona.edu
-