Inside The Ailing Brain

[MindMover]

The Ailing Brain is a fantastic documentary series on the brain and its disorders that’s freely available online. It has been produced in Spanish but the first part is now on YouTube with English subtitles.

The series is among the best neuroscience documentary series I have even seen (along with Susan Greenfield’s Brain Story – made before she lost the plot) with the first part tackling the science and effects of neural implants.

If you see nothing else, go to 6:10 to watch what happens when a patient with an implanted deep brain stimulation device to treat Parkinson’s Disease switches off the machine. It’s an amazing sight.

But if you’ve got 20 minutes, you’d be very well advised to take some time to watch the whole episode as it’s both wonderfully produced and utterly compelling.

http://mindhacks.com/2012/03/30/inside-the-ailing-brain/

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Fascinating...............

[Warpy]

1. I knew about the implants although they are done only experimentally

here by the greatest medical system in the world.

The advances in prosthetics are what are amazing to me. While the military hospitals and VA hosptials are accelerating the fabrication and distribution of higher tech prosthetics, the demand has so far exceeded supply. Still, you see things at the VA that you never see in the for profit sector in terms of newer technologies.