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Electric Brain Stimulation Triggers Eye-of-the-Tiger Effect
“I started getting this feeling like I was riding into a storm… like you’re headed into a storm that’s on the other side, maybe a couple of miles away, and you’ve got to get across the hill. And all of a sudden you’re sitting there going how am I going to get over that through that?”
Those are the words of the man in the video above. He suffered from severe epilepsy and the only treatment left to him was to cut out the part of his brain that triggered his debilitating seizures. But first, his doctors had to pinpoint the offending region. They implanted a web of electrodes in his brain and started stimulating different areas with small electric pulses,