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MEDICAL HUMANITIES LECTURE SERIES
Leslie Jones School of Medicine, USC April 5, 2006 Wednesday, 12:00pm-1:30pm Sumwalt College, Room 102 Research on the potential treatment value of TMS on patients with illnesses such as depression started over 20 years ago. TMS has not yet been FDA approved for any clinical treatment, but its use as a tool to study brain function in healthy human subjects has skyrocketed in recent years. A brief review of the neurophysiology of the brain will be given as a bckground to understanding what is known about the effects of TMS on the normal brain. An overview of the clinical uses that have been tested will be presented followed by a more in-depth look at the literature from animal studies on the myriad effects of TMS on the brain. The ethical question we will examine is, why, given the extensive literature on the many long-term effects of TMS on animal brains, do researchers continue to expose the brains of healthy subjects to this electrically invasive tool for no other purpose than to satisfy their own scientific curiosity? How do the "benefits outweigh the risks" for these ! subjects. Note: A lunch will be available for the first ten people who confirm their attendance to Sheala Riley. Sheala can be reached at sriley@gwm.sc.edu or by phone at 777-1543. She will need a reply by the end of Friday (3/31/06), since she has to give notice on the meals a couple of days in advance. If you're interested, please contact Sheala to say that you will come, give your name, and whether you want chicken and rice or vegetable lasagna. For further information, please contact George Khushf (KhushfG@gwm.sc.edu), who organizes the Medical Humanities Seminar Series.  |
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