A new brain mapping technique reveals circuitry of Parkinson’s disease tremors

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"Lee thinks that her technique – optogenetic fMRI combined with computational modeling – gives researchers a new way to reverse-engineer the functions of the many different types of neurons in the brain and the bafflingly diverse array of neural circuits formed to carry out different commands."

If that's true, this could be huge.

Cancer (CAR-T), and now this? Are we living in the next radio/microwave/radio/TV/internet age? On second thoughts, the concept of "ages" seems to be moving towards redundant. This really does feel like Kurzweil was correct in terms of the singularity - I'm interested in opinions regarding that.

What article did you read? Singularity? They have been using Deep Brain Stimulation for years now. This study sheds some light on DBS but we still basically have no idea why it works. Anecdotally my father has DBS and he was able to get off this terrible medicine Ropinirole (pseudo dopamine) that has a side effect of causing people to gamble excessively as well as, hypersexuality, punding, and in my father's case compulsive fishing.

The radiolab excerpt is here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Scy35jm5Hw

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