Name: Subthalamic nucleus by continent
Duration: 6 s

Please click to listen to the mp3 files of deep brain recordings of individual brain cells, the smallest unit of the brain, in a whole, intact living brain. Each brain region’s cells possess an electrical signature. During recordings electrical signals are transformed into sound to facilitate auditory identification of cells during a process called “mapping.” Mapping is an important step in successfully identifying and localizing the appropriate target site in the brain for an experimental therapeutic procedure called deep brain stimulation which has been used for patients with movement disorders and, more recently, for patients with psychiatric disorders.

Subthalamic nucleus

Nguyen Van Tun
Radio Hanoi, 30 June 1965: 
“It is a flat, scary jungle…”

From "Radiophonics of the Vietnam War. A Collection" by Jan Philip Müller (featured in continent 5.3 "Acoustic Infrastructures").


RadioHanoiToNewTroops.mp3

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Subthalamic nucleus

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