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Originally posted by MrSelfDestruct
Who the hell volunteered to have their brain lesioned for a study? People do some crazy stuff for research and in the name of science, but I don't think I'd let anyone kill brain cells. Still interesting, but I sure as hell wouldn't do it.
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I'm don't know about this particular case, but in the past, the cure for many brain related illnesses (e.g. epilepsy) was a brain lesion.
Often the doctors would ask the patients for their consent to do some experiments during the operation. (As the brain has no nerves that would case pain, the patient can be awake during the expirement and operation).