NP? mesmerized

[Salvador Davino]

Interesting... I recomend you Peter Carey's "Jack Maggs"; its a nice 
dickensian novel, that treat the impact of mesmerism in the 19th century


>From: Doug Millison <pynchonoid at yahoo.com>
>To: Pynchon-L <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: NP?   mesmerized Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 13:25:45 -0700 (PDT)
>
>http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20020825-111801-2480r
>
>CHICAGO, Aug. 25 (UPI) -- Painless magnetic waves
>pulsed across the brain appear to relieve depression
>as well as the more traumatic and standard
>electro-convulsive shock therapy, researchers said at
>the annual meeting of the American Psychological
>Association.
>
>Called repetitive trans-cranial magnetic stimulation,
>the experimental procedure, which consists of a series
>of 20 treatments over a 2-to-4-week period,
>dramatically improves the condition of people with
>severe depression, said Sheila Dowd, associate
>professor of psychiatry at the University of Illinois
>at Chicago. [...]
>
>In the treatment, an electrical current passes through
>a metal coil applied to the scalp to produce
>fluctuating magnetic pulses. The pulses affect nerve
>cells in the brain in the area under the coil and
>possibly in other areas. Dowd said when the device was
>used as a probe by neurologists, some patients
>reported an elevation in mood -- hence the research to
>evaluate the machine as a treatment for depression. At
>least two companies manufacture RTMS devices. [...]
>
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