Four paraplegic men able to move their legs again after being electrocuted
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[QUOTE]“This is a wake-up call for how we see motor complete spinal cord injury, We don’t have to necessarily rely on regrowth of nerves in order to regain function. The fact that we’ve observed this in four out of four people suggests that this is actually a common phenomenon in those diagnosed with complete paralysis.”[/QUOTE]
[URL="http://speakingofresearch.com/2014/05/09/paralysis-breakthrough-paraplegic-men-move-their-legs/"]Videos and a lengthy article here.[/URL]
There was just so much information you might as well read the source.
electrocution means death though..
[quote=wikipedia]Electrocution is death caused by electric shock, either accidental or deliberate. The word is derived from "electro" and "execution", but it is also used for accidental death.[1] The term "electrocution," coined about the time of the first use of the electric chair in 1890, originally referred only to electrical execution (from which it is a portmanteau word), and not to accidental or suicidal electrical deaths. However, since no English word was available for non-judicial deaths due to electric shock, the word "electrocution" eventually took over as a description of all circumstances of electrical death from the new commercial electricity. The first recorded accidental electrocution (besides lightning strikes) occurred in 1879 when a stage carpenter in Lyon, France touched a 250-volt wire.[/quote]
[editline]9th May 2014[/editline]
This is a pretty good example of why ratings are stupid, people bandwagon and don't actually pay any attention to the actual posts
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[QUOTE=No_Excuses;44768423]Have some common sense.[/QUOTE]
[quote]all circumstances of electrical death[/quote]
[quote]electrical death[/quote]
My congestion was fixed by drowning myself just a little bit.
[QUOTE=Juniez;44768373]electrocution means death though..[/QUOTE]
Electrocution could just mean shock therapy, like what they occasionally do for severe depression and the like.
[QUOTE=Psychokitten;44768476]Electrocution could just mean shock therapy, like what they occasionally do for severe depression and the like.[/QUOTE]
that would be electroconvulsive therapy
I've always known electrocution to include injuries too, not necessarily death. I just looked it up in the [url=http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/electrocute?q=electrocution]Oxford Dictionary[/url] to confirm and it states that electrocution means to 'Injure or kill (someone) by electric shock'.
that's pretty interesting
there's a similar kind of thing going on in my uni (my final year project was kind of to do with it as well) where they want to improve upon rehabilitation techniques that use functional electrical stimulation (FES) by triggering the muscle stimulator using an EEG-based brain-computer interface when they detect the patient imagining moving their legs - they basically get the legs to twitch when the person wants to move them, but bypass the spine using the BCI
seemingly this has much higher success rates than just conventional FES (where they just have you be there and have your legs electrically stimulated for a bit and hope you get better (and sometimes people do)) because all the relevant sensorimotor pathways are stimulated at the same time
my project involved recording EEG as people did actual movement just for some extra data (since the brainwave changes are identical in imagined vs actually performed movement) and that was cool as hell to see
[QUOTE=Psychokitten;44768476]Electrocution could just mean shock therapy, like what they occasionally do for severe depression and the like.[/QUOTE]
Electrocution can be used to reference shock therapy the same way disembowelment can be used to reference using the bathroom
So how about them people being able to move their legs again guys.
Pretty interesting stuff, but when I read the title all I can think of is Luigi Galvani's frogs leg experiment.
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[QUOTE=katbug;44768487]Electrocution can be used to reference shock therapy the same way disembowelment can be used to reference using the bathroom[/QUOTE]
I disemboweled myself today :(
[QUOTE=katbug;44768402][editline]9th May 2014[/editline]
This is a pretty good example of why ratings are stupid, people bandwagon and don't actually pay any attention to the actual posts[/QUOTE]
Sorry but Ive always known electrocution to mean "various levels of electricity running through somebody, normally harmful", not this narrow "it always means death by electrocution." definition.
[QUOTE=Rahkshi lord;44768862]Sorry but Ive always known electrocution to mean "various levels of electricity running through somebody, normally harmful", not this narrow "it always means death by electrocution." definition.[/QUOTE]
That's nice, doesn't make his post dumb.
[QUOTE=katbug;44768867]That's nice, doesn't make his post dumb.[/QUOTE]
No I rated him dumb because his post added nothing to the thread but complaining about a single word in the title, and the fact he didn't use ellipsis correct; 3 periods not 2.
[editline]9th May 2014[/editline]
being right doesn't make his post less dumb
[QUOTE=Rahkshi lord;44768862]Sorry but Ive always known electrocution to mean "various levels of electricity running through somebody, normally harmful", not this narrow "it always means death by electrocution." definition.[/QUOTE]
Well that's wrong. The prefix means electric and the suffix means execute. Pretty obvious meaning there
[QUOTE=Rofl my Waff;44768926]Well that's wrong. The prefix means electric and the suffix means execute. Pretty obvious meaning there[/QUOTE]
I know it's wrong I was just trying to explain to him why somebody might disagree, people tend to use words incorrectly, which is how word meanings change, you guys always forget that if enough people use it one way, it will be recognized as correct, even if it isn't correct now.
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being right doesn't make his post less dumb[/QUOTE]
Thanks to him pointing it out several people including myself now know the proper definition of the word.
This is a board for discussion. I feel it's more than excusable to discuss anything related to this thread including an improper title.
[QUOTE=Rahkshi lord;44768954]I know it's wrong I was just trying to explain to him why somebody might disagree, people tend to use words incorrectly, which is how word meanings change, you guys always forget that if enough people use it one way, it will be recognized as correct, even if it isn't correct now.[/QUOTE]
Probably the reason why the English language is such a mess. I'm happy with words having one definition, thank you.
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Probably the reason why the English language is such a mess.[/QUOTE]
"Mess" originally meant liquid food. Stop ruining the English language, uncultured plebian
Why is this thread mostly about the use of a particular word, and not the amazing breakthrough on people who can't walk?
[QUOTE=Lium;44769286]Why is this thread mostly about the use of a particular word, and not the amazing breakthrough on people who can't walk?[/QUOTE]
Because it just happened to be one of those thread that attracted the special kind of stupid.
[QUOTE=megafat;44769341]Because it just happened to be one of those thread that attracted the special kind of stupid.[/QUOTE]
Maybe we can use electrodes on their heads to fix that stupid like they did with the paraplegic chaps?
[QUOTE=Water-Marine;44768507]I disemboweled myself today :([/QUOTE]
I'm sorry for your loss.
I heard [url=http://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/original/0/6162/2505411-3016817384-s4e11.jpg]plane crashes[/url] bring back feeling in your legs, too.
[QUOTE=Lium;44769286]Why is this thread mostly about the use of a particular word, and not the amazing breakthrough on people who can't walk?[/QUOTE]
Because reading articles is haaarrrrddddd
wow, i better go tell the bdsm community about the real definition of electrocution
[QUOTE=Atlascore;44769635]Then go speak French, English's ridiculous number of inconsistencies and fuck-ups is one of the main reason's it's such an awesome language.[/QUOTE]
Mais, Francais est "fucked-up" aussi...
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