bibtex: delgado-1964 Personality, education, and electrical stimulation of the brain
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- "Is it conceivable that behavior or the psyche can be related to electronics? Before answering these questions, we should ask one more: what is the main difference between primitive tribesmen still living in the jungle and the civilized human beings so well represented by this audience?" Education.
- Kinda a ramble saying how education and understanding the brain is essential to our future.
- Against atomic deterrence, unsurprisingly.
- We are in the precarious race between the acquisition of many megatons of destructive power and the development of intelligent human beings who will make wise use of the forces at our disposal"
- Radio receiver on a belt.
- Elicited very complex movements from stimulating the thalamus, including walking from one side of the cage to the other, including avoiding the boss monkey!
- He calls this 'electrical stimulation of the will'.
- stimulate nucleus postero-ventralis induces targeted, well-directed attacks against other males of the group.
- Stimulation of the caudate-septal lobes, just behind the frontal lobes, causes the boss monkey to become tame / tolerant / less aggressive.
- When this function was enabled by pressing a button in the monkeys cage, the monkey most harrassed learned to press the button to halt the boss's aggressive behavior.
- Regarding patients: "some of these patients have undergone testing for weeks or months, and lead a nearly normal life wthile 10, 20 or even more fine wires were present, in different cerebral areas and ready for stimulation from outside the scalp."
- For example, in one patient, who spike a mean of 8.5 words per minute, by means of stimulation to the second temporal column increased his conversation to 44 words per minute." Menwhile, the number of friendly remarks increased by a factor of 9.
- "Knowledge of the human mind may be decisive for our pursuit of happiness and for the very existence of mankind"
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