#trepanation — Public Fediverse posts

They buried the best part about two-thirds of the way down:
"In 2023, Raduga performed neurosurgery on himself, drilling a hole into his skull to insert electrodes in his brain. He trained himself for the surgery by watching videos on YouTube and practising on sheep heads. [...] He was in Kazakhstan at the time, after being forced to leave his research lab in Russia when the war in Ukraine began."
https://www.sciencefocus.com/future-technology/scientists-learned-control-dreams
#dream #trepanning #trepanation

I need trepanation like I need a hole in the head.
https://openculture.com/2026/01/how-the-incas-performed-skull-surgery-more-successfully-than-u-s-civil-war-doctors.html
#trepanation #trepanning

Archaeologists found evidence of trepanation on medieval woman’s skull - Enlarge / This skull of a 50-year-old-ish medieval woman, circa 6th to ... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1917619 #scanningelectronmicroscopy #historyofmedicine #osteoarchaeology #gaming&culture #bioarchaeology #paleopathology #archaeology #trepanation #ctscanning #science