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Topics => Science, Technology, & Medicine => Topic started by: Weisshaupt on March 06, 2014, 09:48:27 AM

Title: Lab Rats
Post by: Weisshaupt on March 06, 2014, 09:48:27 AM: Quote

Leslie: Listen, neither of us are neuroscientists, but we both understand the biochemistry of sex. I mean, dopamine in our brains is released across synapses, causing pleasure. You stick electrodes in a rat's brain, give him an orgasm button, he'll push that thing until he starves to death.
Leonard: Well, who wouldn't?
Leslie: Well, the only difference between us and the rat is that you can't stick an electrode in our hypothalamus. That's where you come in -
(http://www.tvfanatic.com/quotes/shows/the-big-bang-theory/episodes/the-hamburger-postulate/#sthash.TkPMKpks.dpuf)

You can't stick electrodes in a humans brain... or can you? (http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn397-pushbutton-pleasure.html#.UxiJifldU0L)

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A machine that delivers an orgasm at the push of a button has been patented in the US. The implant could help women whose lives have been blighted by an inability to achieve orgasms naturally....The patient remains conscious during the operation to help the surgeon find the best position for the electrodes. Stuart Meloy, a surgeon at Piedmont Anesthesia and Pain Consultants in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, made the breakthrough came one day when he failed to hit the right spot. "I was placing the electrodes and suddenly the woman started exclaiming emphatically," he says. "I asked her what was up and she said, 'You're going to have to teach my husband to do that'."

The Best Part? You know Obamacare will cover it...
Title: Re: Lab Rats
Post by: Libertas on March 06, 2014, 11:16:17 AM: Sure...why not. Let's fund everything!
Title: Re: Lab Rats
Post by: Weisshaupt on March 06, 2014, 11:48:32 AM: Quote from: Libertas on March 06, 2014, 11:16:17 AM
Sure...why not. Let's fund everything!

Well when everything is Awesome why would you not want to fund it?
Title: Re: Lab Rats
Post by: Libertas on March 06, 2014, 11:58:02 AM: Quote from: Weisshaupt on March 06, 2014, 11:48:32 AM
Quote from: Libertas on March 06, 2014, 11:16:17 AM
Sure...why not. Let's fund everything!

Well when everything is Awesome why would you not want to fund it?

I dunno? It's awesome! Forward!
Title: Re: Lab Rats
Post by: AlanS on March 06, 2014, 01:22:05 PM: If it weren't the truth, that would be really funny.
Title: Re: Lab Rats
Post by: Glock32 on March 06, 2014, 03:14:36 PM: "made the breakthrough came one day"

Why author of this article, I do believest thou hath committed a freudian slip.