Medical Drama
This melodramatic series centers around a vicodin addicted doctor that is able to diagnose anything.
What is House, M.D.?
This implant is controversial because it is seen as aiming to "cure" deafness rather than preserving deaf culture.
What is a cochlear implant?
This is a method of brain function localization that used the skull's physical traits.
What is phrenology?
This is the first step in the scientific method.
What is making an observation?
A medical treatment that uses electrical impulses to influence activity in specific areas of the brain.
What is DBS?
This Marvel character is known for his distinctive titanium-then-vibranium arm, which he needed following a fall from a HYDRA train in WII.
Who is Bucky Barnes?
This procedure was performed on Rosemary Kennedy, and resulted in her having limited speech and mobility.
What is a lobotomy?
This person invented a way to quickly perform a lobotomy.
Who is Walter Freeman?
This is a reason for stopping a study based off of early results showing it doesn't work.
What is futility?
A technology that allows the brain to communicate directly with an external device, such as a computer or robotic arm.
What is a brain-computer interface?
This popular TikTok star and digital creator uses her massive platform to educate followers and share her daily life experiences living with Tourette syndrome.
Who is Baylen Dupree?
This 1972 case set the standard for informed consent, ruling physicians have a duty to disclose risks of a procedure to their patients.
What is Canterbury v. Spence?
This person wrote "An Essay on Shaking Palsy" in 1817 which compelled others to do research into the disease which would 40 years later bare his name.
Who is James Parkinson?
The tendency of scientists to find the results they want instead of the results that are accurate.
What is confirmation bias?
The brain's ability to change and reorganize itself by forming new neural connections throughout a person's life.
What is neuroplasticity?
This Grey's Anatomy character lost their leg following a plane crash.
Who is Dr. Arizona Robbins?
This 19th-century reformer campaigned to establish the first mental asylums in America when mentally ill patients used to be kept in prisons.
Who is Dorothea Dix?
This document contains the first (surviving) written record of the brain's anatomy and was written by the Egyptians in 1700 B.C.
What is the Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus?
This is the phase of a clinical trial that occurs after the treatment has been approved.
What is phase 4?
A small, curved structure located deep inside the brain that plays an important role in learning and memory.
What is the hippocampus?
The series The Pitt takes place in this city.
What is Pittsburgh?
This neurosurgeon was nicknamed "Dr. Death" following his many malpractice cases where wrong sites were operated on and tools and sponges were misplaced, sometimes inside the patients.
Who is Christopher Duntsch?
The first motor neuroprosthesis invented in 1961 to treat foot drop.
What is a peroneal nerve stimulator?
This was updated as a result of advocacy during the AIDS/HIV pandemic so patients in a study now recieve the "current standard care".
What is the Placebo Standard?
A type of brain cell that becomes active both when an individual performs a specific action and when they observe someone else performing a similar action.
What are mirror neurons?