An Electric Shock Could Keep Patients From Bleeding Out
An Electric Shock Could Keep Patients From Bleeding Out
Science, Spoken · SpokenLayer
May 16, 20177m 39s
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Show Notes
Fifteen years ago, Kevin Tracey sat in a Washington DC conference room surrounded by officials from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. They’d been paying the neurosurgeon to study how doctors could stimulate the vagus nerve—a long nerve that controls everything from blood pressure to sexual arousal—to treat inflammation associated with PTSD. Now they wanted to know: Could he stimulate anything else into submission? He searched his brain.
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