SEvransThe Apple TV+ series is very common about workers in offices who undergo surgery in the brain so that themselves have no knowledge or memory for themselves, and vice versa, often, often, often, Described like Science fiction. This is a reasonable description, because the simple external brain surgery that divides the person between “Innie” in the office and “Outie” at home is not available for the rest of us.
But while the science that depicts it goes beyond anything is currently possible, many brain and neurosurgeons are still fans. “I love to cut This raises an important function that the brain takes care of it without even realizing it, “which simply puts our identity through our awareness of ourselves, our experiences, and our internal drama.
We have asked Rincon-Torroeella and other Brainiacs who are watching or familiar with it to cut Their ideas on how to photograph brain surgery and all the neural things in the show.
Clean – and very certified – for brain surgery
The first step in changing the brain is the ability to physically reach the brain, and here is a scientific leakage first to scientific. Although the term “brain surgery” may call for an open skull from publishing the width of the pink mass, the surgery to which themes undergo a small hole-around the size of ten cents-in the rear crown of the skull and inserting a small slice in the brain tissue below. The procedure is fast and simple, and since these things are not relatively blood.
This type of gas surgery is minimal not at all outside the world that is possible today. “We can treat tumors or brain areas that cause epilepsy by drilling a small hole in the skull and inserting a laser probe under the perception of MRI,” says Dr. Houamin Azmi, Director of Occupational and Reconstruction Neurosurgery at the Hackesak University Medical Center. “We can then see the tumor that burns on MRI.”
Surgeons in to cut Do not use such an advanced photography, just look at the brain and the design of the manual chip-and obtain it properly each time. In terms of surgery [in the show]”It is clear that it is a little science fiction.”
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Some types of brain surgery do not require opening the skull at all. Vascular expansion – or bubbles in the artery wall – can be treated by connecting a probe from an artery in the thigh or wrist to the brain and closing the affected area with a file or stent.
“This has greatly changed the results and complications for patients,” says Azmi. “I think the days of the brain surgery in the office are still far from us. But the less ethical and safety brain surgery was continuing for several years.”
Some of the procedures are less tweeting, do not communicate with the brain tissue at all. Magnetic stimulus skull (TMS) Applications apply magnetic pulses to the scalp to treat symptoms of severe depression. Concentrated ultrasound can be filtered through the skull and cancellation, or surgical removal, without any dependence on a drill or scalpel. “It also helps us to remove brain centers in patients who have an essential tremor, or an irreplaceable tremor in another way,” says Rincon-Torroella.
Less realistic photography to control memory
to cut It takes more scientific freedoms when it comes next to the brain where the memory adjustment chip is implanted. This area in the crown of the head is known as the wall lobe, and while the mural performs a lot of functions – especially the processing of sensory information such as touch, temperature, pain and spatial awareness – it is not the place where memory lives.
The ability to form short -term horses is subject to two hiccups, which are deep in both hemispheres. But a A group of other parts of the brain– including Fornixand Basementand Mulchand Almondand ScourgeAnd LobeYou also play a role in integrating and storing long -term memories. This is a wide range of nervous properties for a stroke planted in the mural to cover.
At least, the Rincon-Torroella says, the memory changing slice will target the hippocampus, for the function of memory formation and the governing, which governs emotions. “Memory and emotions are linked to each other,” she says. “These will be the areas that I will try to deal with if we’ll look at the idea of whether we can divide the identity.”
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But turning off the main brain areas may not be vice versa. “You can, for example, to expel a short -term memory if you turn off or cut both the hippocampus and the veins,” says Dr. Daniel Ornger, Associate Professor of Nyu Langone Health. “People will not be able to create these memories, but this is a devastating thing.”
Azmi incredible memory control to cut Photography is completely out of the possibility – not in the foreseeable future. “We are likely to reach the day that we may be able to choose memories and cancel the identification of other memories,” he says. “I think this is many years away.”
Even if it is possible to switch back and forth in two or three regions in a brain, this will not, in itself, will be sufficient to create double identities to cut Show. “The memory is very complicated and includes many different areas of the brain,” says Dr. Howard Reina, Vice President of the New York University of Neurosurgery. “It is also the hemisphere; there are memory ingredients on the left side of the brain and the right side of the brain. The slide must have a kind of global impact from the region that is planted.”
Brain chips capabilities
This may not be possible with the existing technology, but the cultivated brain chips that operate locally – in one targeted area of the brain – already works. California -based Neuralink, Elon Musk, is creating computer chips that can be planted in the brain and allow the Blake Quarter to control computers and other devices with its ideas. Braingate, a federation of neurologists, engineers, and computer scientists, and more, looks to planting chips but the poles in the brain, Which allows the same People who suffer from paralysis, als or stroke in the brain to treat their environments, and sometimes simply by thinking about using their paralyzed arm and hand to process the computer indicator. Deep brain stimulation-In any electrodes connected to a cardiac-style device that is connected to the targeted areas of the brain-they are already used to control tremors related to Parkinson’s disease, as well as epilepsy, Torite syndrome, tension defect and more.
“You have people with injuries, they have strikes, they have a shock, they have cerebral palsy,” says Reina. “You may be able to increase these people, or even use different parts of the brain to compensate for the damaged area.”
Increased, identity, or inhibition of identity, or manipulating it in another way, including memory, will serve as much heavier than treatment, injury or disease in an isolated area of the brain, and while to cut Good television is made, as it does not call rational science in general – at least not in the future expected remoteness.
“The brain is amazingly complicated in terms of its connection,” says Orenger. “It is also different from person to person. So everyone’s network is placed a little different. The idea that you can turn off a sub -group of memories and still has a memory function? It looks somewhat unreasonable.”