shooting electricity

[pynchonoid]

In a concrete basement at the University of Sydney, I
sat in a chair waiting to have my brain altered by an
electromagnetic pulse. My forehead was connected, by a
series of electrodes, to a machine that looked
something like an old-fashioned beauty-salon hair
dryer and was sunnily described to me as a
''Danish-made transcranial magnetic stimulator.'' This
was not just any old Danish-made transcranial magnetic
stimulator, however; this was the Medtronic Mag Pro,
and it was being operated by Allan Snyder, one of the
world's most remarkable scientists of human cognition.


Nonetheless, the anticipation of electricity being
beamed into my frontal lobes (and the consent form I
had just signed) made me a bit nervous. [...] 

continues:
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/22/magazine/22SAVANT.html>


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