Short circuit

• Autores: Andy Ridway
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3044, 2015, págs. 38-41
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • A revolution in neuroscience seems to be underway. It has allowed a 13-year-old autistic boy to speak for the first time. It has freed people with Tourette's from physical tics so severe that they broke bones. It has stopped people with obesity from overeating and prevented those with anorexia from eating too little. Here, Ridgway finds that deep brain stimulation has had amazing results, but failure are flagging up its limits