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...specific regions at the surface, or cortex. And because the treatment does not trigger a seizure (as electroconvulsive therapy does), there's no need for muscle relaxants or anesthesia and no problem with memory loss. Patients undergoing magnetic stimulation usually feel only a kind of tapping on their skull as the current starts to flow...
...their horror, scientists found that some of the specimens had been severely damaged; a pelvis was broken (possibly as a result of being dropped); a mandible had been snapped and crudely repaired; and the highly important solitary skull appeared to have had pieces rubbed, scratched and broken off it. It's now alleged that the damage was most likely caused by someone making a cast with a special substance that is painted or sprayed on and hardens into a rubbery mold. Equally infuriating to scientists is the possibility that the supposed illicit casting may have altered the skull...
...Brown used computerized tomography (CT) scans and computer imagery to make the Morwood team's cast of the skull. He claims the crude cast-making method that damaged the skull is illegal. "It's a bit like some scholar went to the British Museum and stole the Rosetta Stone and made a copy of it, trashed the original in doing it - then had the only copy,'' he says. Jacob denies that any damage was done to the bones in his lab - or even that a cast has been made. "(The Australians) blame us for everything," he says. "They think they...
...head and snapped my head back. It made me really mad." A specialist machine gunner, Batchelor shot back and watched his would-be assassin topple to his death before crumpling to the ground himself. The bullet that hit Batchelor pierced his helmet and lodged in his skull, miraculously stopping before it reached his brain. It was April 4, 2004, and Batchelor had been in Baghdad for four days. He now hates the number four...
...DOES CHEMOTHERAPY COMPARE WITH YOUR PREVIOUS HEALTH BATTLES--A BRAIN TUMOR AND A HEART- BYPASS OPERATION? [For the brain tumor] they put a parasol on your forehead and cut out a piece of your skull two inches by two inches, and then they take a scoop and go inside and fiddle with your brain. [For the bypass] they had my heart on the table, and I was Code Blue. And then there was the doctor who [mistakenly] diagnosed me with ALS and said I had a short time to live...