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Magnetic Creativity Stimulation

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My Mom Thinks I'm Cool

11:53 / 01.06.05

Did I see the results of the tests? No.

Is it possible that it affected my reaction time and I couldn't tell? Yes, very. It definitely didn't make me super fast or super slow though (unless my brain was too messed up to tell...which I doubt.)

It's also possible that it was much more precise than it seemed. They had an MRI of my head and used it along with some custom software to line up the hat with whatever areas (also the areas they were testing seemed to be all over the place, which also made me skeptical.) But the equipment always seemed loose and sloppy and the guys running the program seemed to be goofballs. Except the creepy vampire chick in charge of the lab but she only showed up once when some foreign guys were in town to show off...one of those professors who occasionally has to pretend to have some idea what's going on in the lab zhe supposedly runs.

03:50 / 02.06.05

interesting comment on the 'sloppiness' of the recording... tms is a pretty imprecise instrument in the wrong hands - the sulci make the incidence of the magnetic current at the neurons a bit of a nefariously hit and miss affair, but it depends on how 'fine grained' they were experimenting.

our labs try to switch off the fronto temporal lobes, so is not so targeting little areas - this is a new science and it is still being developed as a technique. but it is improving fast... thanks for the feedback on the guinea pig-ness! did you feel anything like a buzz or a high? did the effect last a while - did they do [some time, mebbe 20 min, up to an hour] post-tms tests??

any luck with the s.a. mind yet, grant?

My Mom Thinks I'm Cool

14:39 / 06.07.05

did you feel anything like a buzz or a high?

Not that I recall. The whole experience was kind of weird so it's possible that there was a slight effect of that kind, but I don't remember noting it.

For one barrage of the tests I was also very (55 hours) sleep deprived as part of a related experiment, so it's more or less impossible to say how messed up I was at the time due to the TMS.

did the effect last a while - did they do [some time, mebbe 20 min, up to an hour] post-tms tests??

No post TMS tests by the TMS lab.

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