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AP - The government has approved the first noninvasive brain stimulator to treat depression — a device that beams magnetic pulses through the skull. If it sounds like science-fiction, well, those woodpecker-like pulses trigger small electrical charges that spark brain cells to fire. Yet it doesn't cause the risks of surgically implanted electrodes or the treatment of last resort, shock therapy.




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[houghchrst]

This is very interesting but for some reason I can imagine all kinds of problems with it in the hands of someone who really doesn't know much about what they are doing. There are a lot of those out there. And are mistakes reversible. With medication you can stop taking a pill. What if the wrong area is magnetized for a long period of time. Just sounds, I don't know, creepy.