Brain Hemisphere Specializations

[KEG950177]

lols you guys, it's an important part of psychological history. appreciate what came before fMRI

[sloankulper]

Wow.

[Ipergorilla]

this documentary sounds a lot like something Boards of Canada would use for their music

[dontmakemeregister43]

Today we can use the non-invasive fMRI to accomplish the same task, that is, finding out where a subject's speech area is.

[psychobollox]

@dontmakemeregister43

yup. even better is MEG....

[benfirst]

this is way outdated. We have fMRI for this type of analysis now.

[CLCarozza]

@benfirst not really, my boyfriend is going in for this in first thing in the morning.

[itzmalife]

using the sodium amytal that anesthetizes on that side for a few minutes.

[PolaristheCepheid]

that machine looks like a lie detector :D

[sl8734]

how do they anesthestize each hemisphere?

[malekai]

they inject it into a vein that goes into only one of the hemispheres, although this video is kinda old and today we have other ways of doing this. But in any case it is painless...only a bit weird :)

[mcas89]

@malekai

Into the common carotid ARTERY, not a vein!!!!

[Anihilacija]

@sl8734 Using sodium amobarbital.