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This is opening up a can of worms akin to talking about penetrating oils (PB Blaster, WD-40, ATF/Acetone mix). I've always been and over and roll guy short of 50' cables and back in the day when we had analog snakes that were nearly 3" in diameter and 200' that lived in a road case you didn't have any choice but to over/under unless you wanted to see a half dozen guys cry at the end of the night and the beginning of the day.

I'm in the Law and Finance building on 4th. For years our elevator access was secured by a hasp and had direct access to the roof. That was a fun place to check out the 250th anniversary fireworks with a 6 pack.

Right temporal lobeectomy. Bill Binghamon resected 3 discrete parts. Amygdala, Hippocampus and temporal lobe. The post-op MRI is pretty wild. I'm living alone now and working mostly from home so I could be having seizures and not know but I haven't had anybody say anything. I was having complex partial seizures so unless I drop something and not notice it until later or suddenly realize I peed a little I could never know.

For the overwhelming battery of testing I had before lobeectomy (EEGs, MRIs and CTs of course, but also PET, MEG and SEEG) I'd have never imagined that anybody was doing academic research from a timing perspective. I've subsequently dug into A LOT of the physiological research but this is all new to me. The math is WAY beyond me but the general concept is intriguing.

> Then secondly you could have certain lanes or roads that are designed for specific self-driving vehicles

I have a friend in mapping at Uber ATG. Uber Eats is only available in areas she has mapped which makes me think that they aren't waiting for dedicated infrastructure and relying on their mapping database for now, at least for early development. Granted, Uber Eats isn't using AVs, but that makes me think the GIS crew is doing some heavy lifting there. Pure speculation on my part though.

Former Epileptic (brain surgeries in '17) here. After I had two generalized seizures in my sleep (good thing I was living with someone at the time or I'd have never known) I met my local neurologist and was put on Depakote.

From there out I had complex partial seizures and would simply zone out for a minute, give or take. If I was around my girlfriend or coworkers I told them to let me know otherwise I'd have no idea that I'd had a seizure aside from occasionally peeing myself a bit. Incontinence regularly correlates with seizures.

I mentioned this elsewhere but there was one specific time that I was walking back down the street with coworkers, dropped my sandwich and kept walking. One of my buddies caught up to me, handed me my sandwich and that 30 sec. or so was just gone even though I kept walking down the sidewalk.

I was right temporal focal and have the pathology report on the hunks my surgeon cut out on my wall. The photo of my post op MRI with noticeably less brain on one side than the other is a great conversation starter.

The last test before my lobeectomy was a SEEG surgery. (I had 11 electrodes 3"+ long shoved directly into my grey and white matter) The last part of the test is stimulation. They're applying stimulation at different voltages, amperage and frequencies to very specifically triangulated ares to be sure there aren't any cognitive, motor neural or autonomous functions in the parts they want to resect. I had to describe what I was seeing, feeling or hearing for each stimulation. It was absolutely bizarre. For instance, during one of the settings I had no muscle tone and struggled to lift my arm to point at the TV, another I had an increasing frequency sweep from one ear to the other. It was neat-o.

From what I've learned auras can manifest in all kids of manners and that's one of the prevalent ones. I have a few friends with migraines and that's common for them as well. There's a really, really strong correlation between the mechanisms at work in Epilepsy and migraines.

I don't remember anything specifically but I do seem to remember that it wasn't any one particular thing. If it was immediately pre-ictal I wouldn't have been likely to remember at all. I had two generalized seizures before I made it to my neuro and started Depakote (bad stuff) and then just had complex partial seizures. I'd just zone out for a half a minute or so with no memory of that time. There were times that I was walking down the street with coworkers, had a seizure and dropped my lunch and just kept walking along the whole time.

Weirdly enough when I was epileptic ('12-'17, couple of brain surgeries fixed that up) the auras I would experience were an occasional olfactory hallucination. I can't imagine there's any physiological connection outside of the brain but it's still a weird coincidence to read about "smelling" a seizure.