Testing deep brain stimulation targets
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58:33granular granular now, right? We can get really granular and try to think what is the best target. This is so good. They settled on the subthalamic nucleus. It had overwhelmingly standout result for consciousness recovery in their model. Okay. >> Okay? Then again, they tested this with humans. >> Mhm. They tested a 130-Hz stimulation in the subthalamic nucleus in six awake human patients, and um the cortical CNN, the the cortical consciousness detector that they had previously trained, detected a significant shift towards optimal consciousness.
59:14This is great. >> With only stimulation in the STN. If they went anywhere else, only the subthalamic nucleus showed this effect. If they did it in the cortex, if they did it in the pallidum, didn't show any significant increase in consciousness. Yes. And that's what the model predicted. So, are you saying we found the boss's office? Yeah, it seems we
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