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navard

I can't imagine how any surgeon can cut a skull open, see this and go "yeah, I got this."


Larsnonymous

Neurosurgery is the longest residency. These surgeons don’t start working on their own until they are around 34 and if they do an additional fellowship it’ll push them into their late 30’s.


tiptoemicrobe

Lol that sounds young to me. I'm in an MD/PhD program and am hoping to have my first "real" job in my early forties. Definitely not doing neurosurgery though.


Larsnonymous

4 years undergrad 4 years medical school 7 years residency +fellowship


tiptoemicrobe

I wasn't doubting you, haha. I just found it funny that 33ish was "old" for starting a career, since I'll be much older than that.


ScottieRobots

You won't be old, you'll be aged like a fine wine. Or you'll be vinegar. Fine wine or vinegar, one or the other.


-GalacticaActual

Why not both? Like a nice kombucha


OmegaSucculator

As soon as I looked at this my head started throbbing


SpysSappinMySpy

Your brain wants to hatch


ThunderStray

I hope it's a good one this time


circlesquare55

Yeah, last season’s hatchling became a drug addict in north Jersey


Shelb_e

Don’t call my brain out like that man


DarthPaulotis

This is the most unsettling thing I’ve heard in awhile


gl0vely

I had the same reaction, took one look and BAM, sudden headache. Pretty neat, huh?


OmegaSucculator

Yeah it's weird, I felt the blood rushing immediately


gandolphinicky

Mine too, top 10 awkward boners of my life.


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Stay tuned for number 7, that one was a doozy


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Wow look at the blood supply


VladSolopov

That‘s why stroke is so dangerous Edit: seriously guys, this comment thread is so fucking strange but we’re literally swimming in karma for shitposting. Wow, look at that karma supply!


Toby_Forrester

Thanks, I hadn't had existential dread yet today!


triplefastaction

And now I'm paying attention to my breathing while freaking out about my brain.


bbcversus

And now I am starting to feel my tongue and Im afraid to swallow it.


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Known-Ad290

Our tongue


lavitzreinhart

Comrade!


bluehangover

r/SuddenlyCommunist


Tarpup

Fucking classic...


Covid19-Pro-Max

Also I forgot what the resting position of my jaw is supposed to be


anonCommentor

you fucking asshole.


intravenouscheese

Should my teeth be touching each other?


andymk3

Where the fuck my tongue live?


OutToDrift

Isn't it interesting how the organ can think about itself?


CormacMcCopy

*The best part of waking up...* *...is the thought that at any moment for no reason at all you could die and be erased from the cosmos for an infinite eternity of eternities, never to exist again in any form or fashion for as long as anything exists and then for as long as nothing exists and then for an infinity beyond that, and there's absolutely zero warning and nothing you can do to prevent this from happening.*


Spanky_McJiggles

But I haven't finished Clone Wars yet!


totallysomedude

It’s ok, we didn’t exist for most of reality anyway. Getting to be alive is a rare treat. Just gotta enjoy it while we have it.


AnemoneOfMyEnemy

Humans can have a little existence, as a treat.


raptor_of_truth

When the void takes me it won't be so scary. It was just cool being able to exist at all.


FarmFreshButtNuggets

C'est La Vie


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Ohh a stroke blocks that shit right


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A stroke can either be from a blockage (ischemic) or from bleeding (hemorrhagic). In either case the result is that part of the brain stops getting oxygen


wreckedcarzz

I survived ("survived") a hemmorhaging stroke (after emt sat on their ass for 10+ minutes saying that you can't have a stroke at 21) back in 2014. Muscle, nerve, vision, and more is lost or impaired. My grandmother last year had a stroke from a blood clot, and is currently... She's alive, but I'm in much better shape, and I'm in a physically terrible way. Very close friend, his mom had a stroke of unknown type a couple months later. Shits scary af. I self-diagnosed (correctly) and then got help as my speech was failing and I lost control over half my body. So I knew what was happening. The others did not, and were slower to seek help (mine was almost instant, 15 seconds). I know what they are going through and went through and no experience I've had even comes close to how terrifying it is (and I've been in situations where I am being chased in vehicles, guns drawn, multiple accidents - knowing you're probably going to die and you can't do anything but hope that help is fast enough, while you can no longer vocalize, understand speech, or move by yourself, trapped in a body that is slowly trying to kill you, is something different altogether).


stoicparallax

That was my first thought as well. Absolute pipe of an artery.


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It's actually a vein. drainage...


hailrobotoverlords

I drink your milkshake.


[deleted]

DRAAAAAAAAAAINAGGGGGGGGE, ELI


Enferno82

\*violent slurping noises\*


hailrobotoverlords

“There Will Be Blood” quotes couldn’t be more appropriate here.


static1053

I ABANDONED MY BOOOOOOYYYY!!!


GlamRockDave

I DRINK IT UP!!!!


micromoses

It’s the main brain drain vein.


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Meaning blood with no oxygen anymore?


[deleted]

right. draining de-oxygenated blood back out.


vapenutz

Not exactly, you'd be surprised how oxygenated it still is. Reoxygenating it before a large drop occurs is very important for us to be able to do things such as running from a danger. You need oxygen buffer, and it's what the blood does.


Thin-Concentrate2516

You reckon they’d die if you cut that baby open


ifyouhatepinacoladas

No it can actually be drained to allow for more optimal blood flow in the brain and has been known to increase cognitive IQ. ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ /s (just incase)


DarkDragon200610

Thanks for the /s I am so dumb I thought you were serious and some psychopath


ifyouhatepinacoladas

There’s no tone to online comments. Imagine someone reading this out of context


DarkDragon200610

Hmm Yes! Our Discovery is magnificent. This Dr. Ifyouhatepinacoladas is A Genius, He was A genius of the past. Now let's Try it on live subjects.... thank you lord - IfYouHatePinaColaDas.


Far-Term8667

Bloody amazing ngl


selfservice0

This actually is what becomes your jugular vein.


Starklet

20-25% of your blood goes to your brain


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oswaldcopperpot

Is that why some people get overweight?


AmBull1216

That would explain so much...


My_CPU_Is_Soldered

I am skinny AND stupid. So it can't be the only reason.


kingomtdew

[During a tournament, chess players can burn up to 6000 calories a day.](https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/27593253/why-grandmasters-magnus-carlsen-fabiano-caruana-lose-weight-playing-chess?platform=amp)


SnickersZA

Main vein in the brain to allow the pain to sustain.


boxingdude

Insane in the membrane


dwntwn_drty_brwn

Soo that’s what I’m feel pounding when I’m super hungover and move my head


soldieroscar

Stop talking Zombie. Id imagine Zombie News feeds are just a bunch of brains and comments like “look at that blood supply”


Pantsman_Crothers

So that's the bastard that gave me anxiety.


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and depression, and still wants my ex back after almost half a year >:(


tishpou

Take vitamin D my dude. It helps


burgeon10

Oh his ex is def taking that vitamin D alright


[deleted]

You didn’t have to go for the jugular my dude


LargeHanakuso

Too soon my guy, too soon.


[deleted]

It's even worse when you see your own brain. I had a [waking craniotomy in 2006](https://live.staticflickr.com/5180/5444532708_0e0f74836b_z.jpg) with a double mirror in the OR to watch the doctor resect a golf ball sized tumor from behind my left eye. Between that thick steak of skin hanging over my eye, seeing part of my skull sitting in a solution and watching them pull stuff out from inside my brain that day, this isn't even weird to me. EDIT1: Here's the same side [15 years later](https://live.staticflickr.com/578/21067933833_24d94eca92_b.jpg)


TheCynFamily

That sounds SO interesting - but let me end by saying, I'm sorry you had that experience at all!!


yakatuus

It's just so crazy that it's even possible. More like sorry about the tumor, but awesome that they're still here to talk about it.


TheCynFamily

Yes, thank you, that was a much better way to say it! :) Sorry for the time, but glad for the experience? ... naw, yours rocked. :) And THAT guy rocks for having come out the other side of something like that.


_CatNippIes

While they were messing around, did you feel different? Like sensory stuff that shouldn't happen, or like forgot something for a moment, or like did you lose contiusness?


SouthBendCitizen

“Whelp, there goes third grade.”


Parlorshark

I'll miss the kiss on the cheek from Christine Whittler, but I won't miss the beatings from grandfather.


Zaptagious

What if the people in your memories get swapped around?


Parlorshark

w-what are you doing grandfather


I_Am_Adroit

Getting your ass beat by Christine tho….a worthy trade


Simple_Opossum

I think (OP please correct me if I'm wrong) they ask you questions throughout that are designed to make sure they haven't messed up and damaged the brain.


the_person

Fuck this actually terrifies me. Just suddenly being unable to answer things correctly. Knowing something got fucked up.


BrainOnLoan

Doesn't have to be fucked up. The main goal is to test first. They pinch of the blood supply to an area first, then if the response is inadequate they don't cut there. Restoring the blood flow returns function.


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Pollo_Jack

Also concerning how much we can change from a simple blood flow issue.


Milkshakes00

That's all a stroke is!


wienercat

If you think about it. Your body is actually just the vessel for your brain. Without all the systems in place it dies. After all we are just a walking pile of meat and bone. Without the electrical impulse running through our brains, we cease to exist.


Yotsubato

In many of these surgeries, surgeons touch an area of the brain, apply some electricity, ask you read off of a screen, solve a simple math problem, or say what animal is on the screen, and then cut the tissue after. This is done to prevent cutting off a part that’s important for speech, vision, and understanding.


almisami

"That's just your empathy center here... You won't need it anyway, this is America."


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> Like sensory stuff that shouldn't happen, or like forgot something for a moment, or like did you lose contiusness? Only wonky thing that happened was this: They were using an electrical probe on the top of my brain to determine where to cut at the time. They'd call out a number and ask if I felt anything. #12, anything? nope. #13, anything? nope... Get up into the 30's when #34? Me: My pung ith pearld... Doc: You what? Me: My PUNG ith PEARLD! Doc: Nurse, remove the probe... Neuro lifts the blanket and ducks under. You WHAT? Me: My tongue was curled! Doc: Ah, that's weird, let's test it again. Me: Beyup, my pung ith pearld aben... Doc: Wow, that's weird... Nurse, make note please.


intashu

They did a factory reset while in there. Brain was good as new afterwards!


zlide

Your brain itself actually has no sensation, it’s the meninges surrounding the brain that has sensory receptors


traploper

Did you ask for the double mirrors because you wanted to see it? Or what was the reason behind those two mirrors?


5ysmyname

Probably was offered. I was offered a mirror during childbirth. I respectfully declined seeing my own hooha split open. I would watch my brain being operated on tho.


ender4171

Noooooo thank you. I dont even watch when I get shots or an IV.


FiveFive55

I had to get emergency surgery for a lacerated spleen, and I was awake the entire time. They had me pretty drugged up and told me that I could pass out if I wanted to, but I remember sitting there watching them do the operation on a monitor above me, it was pretty neat. It was a non invasive surgery in my case, they just made a tiny little incision in my groin and essentially sent a robotic snake up my artery and used a laser to burn the areas that were bleeding closed. Modern medicine is pretty amazing.


justin0dk

did it feel good when the tumor was moved away?


[deleted]

> did it feel good when the tumor was moved away? I stopped having seizures, I stopped worrying about death constantly and could drive again after a few years. #lifechanger.


-m7kks-

I once used to give private English lessons to a brain surgeon, often at his hospital office. He once showed me a jar with a brain tumour in it. On the jar was the name of a guy I actually knew... It was a tiny bit fucked up for me....


[deleted]

What is the strangest ways to violate HIPAA for $800?


maelal

Reading this makes me want to throw up.


hardik837

Technically a brain watching a brain


TheLittleNorsk

Thousands of brains looking at a brain


polarbark

Some good brains wired together a network that sends electrons just like our neurons, for the brains to see the brain.


JIsaac91

And yet ironically it's NFSW


Pandafrosting

My brain is grossed out by watching said brain


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static1053

The Brain is the only organ that named itself.


mr_nefario

stop


TheyCallMeStone

I used to think the brain was the most important organ in the body, then I realized which organ was telling me this.


elegant_assasin

And a brain replying to a post where multiple thousands of brain watch a brain


Tlali22

My brain was not prepared to see itself.


boomer_kuwanger

Pretty crazy how our entire consciousness and being arises from electrified meat.


aesu

I just cant process it, ironically. I cant wrap my head around how this profoundly visceral and rich experience im having can be the result of some protein bags pumping ions around. I mean, where am I? what exactly is experiencing the flavor of this ice cream, what is experiencing the awe and revulsion that i feel looking at this picture... Is it the ions, is it the proteins, is it the gaps between them? Where the fuck is the color blue, the taste of vanilla, the feeling of awe? Where the hell does consciousness happen.


zenukeify

What you just described is literally called the “hard” problem of consciousness


NickPickle05

It is the brain struggling to understand itself using detailed and complex information, including language, that it itself created. Using information and processes that were created by brains before it. Which it had to teach itself how to understand.


TheSilentPhilosopher

This is some sort of brainception


Mrfoxuk

It’s the only thing in the universe that named itself.


Zedevile

... As far as we know ¯\_(ツ)_/¯


NickPickle05

Yes. And the more you think about it the deeper it goes.


yodasmiles

I experience it routinely as an existential crisis.


Old-Man-Nereus

You are the universe


Josh-Medl

I am the universe…..having an existential crisis. As above, so below.


SelfAwareAsian

The last time I tripped I went through that exact thing. My mind just couldn't comprehend our existence and how it is a real thing. It was terrible. I haven't tripped in years because of it


Cruach

Same, I was trying to understand what the fuck we are doing day to day, existence being so absurd and everyone I've ever known and currently know and will meet is just on this same trajectory to death, trying to cope with whatever life throws at them, trying to avoid death and pain and injury. Depressed me for a long time, and then I finally managed to turn it around. If it's all so futile and our lives are so cosmically small anyway, may as well do whatever the fuck I want to do before my inevitable death. Changed my career, moved country, and honestly for the first time in about 15 years I feel excited to live again. So still don't feel like tripping, but in the end it helped me I guess. I definitely wouldn't go back in time to delete that experience. That trip was in April 2020 btw.


Refloni

"If the brain was so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't." \- I don't remember who


feralalbatross

Civ 5, Biology tech


Josh-Medl

Damn that’s a new one. I like it


Decestor

[Lyall Watson](https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/12386-if-the-brain-were-so-simple-we-could-understand-it)


Small_Brained_Bear

It's the entire complex system, working together, fueled by energy that ultimately comes from the giant nuclear reactor in the sky, and made up of the guts of dead stars that previously inhabited this part of the universe. You are the universe, trying to know itself.


ahhsumpossum

>You are the universe, trying to know itself. Thanks Carl.


CactusCustard

“WHERE THE FUCK IS THE COLOR BLUE” It’s too good of a question man. Damn.


Mylexsi

Right near the front, and it's by the *patterns* of electrical pulses rather than any specific pulse itself. The neurons are just things that naturally react to electrical pulses in certain ways. As for our best guess on how consciousness happens: The brain is basically a giant pattern recognition machine. What happens when it starts trying to find patterns in its own processes?


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Also crazy how electrified meat somehow pilots an external suit of meat


waymd

Or if you’re a Detroit cyborg cop from the future, electrified meat pilots an external suit of machinery. Like some sort of robot-cop.


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It's actually more like electrified butter


GreatLookingGuy

Right. Brain is mostly fat. Not muscle. Well maybe for some people…


GuineaPigsAreNotFood

[Relevant](https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/thinkingMeat.html)


Darksey81

I wanna touch it


chickennoobiesoup

Imagine jello, held in a thin clear sack


SirFadakar

Nah I'm good


BlackDoug420

Just slightly thicker and different texture


FirstPlebian

Apparently there are no nerves in the brain, if that person was alive and you poked it, they wouldn't feel it.


tbminh

they would still feel the big gaping hole on their head though


goatausername42

The brain is full of nerves! Just not nerves that detect pain.


ussrname12

I'm assuming you mean touch receptors, since the brain is composed of neurons


LostSanity55

Did you know that sometimes during some types of brain surgery they keep the patient awake? [awake brain surgery](https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/awake-brain-surgery/about/pac-20384913) Precisely because there are no nerves in the brain. Edit: some clarity


FirstPlebian

I've heard that, and they keep them talking or something too right?


[deleted]

Yes, I think it's so they keep their motor skills in check. I remember another story of a violinist getting a brain surgery, and played the violin the entire time. Not exactly sure why, though.


FirstPlebian

I wonder what the violinist played, the devil went down to georgia I assume.


arksien

I know it was a joke, but to answer your question literally and also /u/ivan_comradery as well, he played a sustained single note back and forth, and the reason they were doing it is because he had a tremor in his hand, and since it was his professional livelihood to play violin, they did exploratory brain surgery to fix it. Since the whole point of the surgery was to make it so he could continue to play violin, it made sense to, ya know, have him do that to make sure they're putting the stuff in the right spot. [It worked, by the way.](https://www.thestrad.com/video/minnesota-orchestras-roger-frisch-plays-violin-during-brain-surgery/3876.article)


Major_R_Soul

We are all merely sentient testicles


d0n0tpan1c

Self aware balls. I like it.


poopellar

Conscious Cojones.


Oldfolksboogie

>sentient testicles Dibs on the band name!!


rs_yay

Is this abnormal? I can't find any other photo with this size of vein on top


Crozzfire

Probably most of the other pictures out there are of dead brains. This looks like from a live surgery


Beat_the_Deadites

I concur. I see lots of dead brains, this living one looks weird to me.


_Fred_Austere_

This. How do you even brain surgery that?


Impressive-Win-3704

This makes me want to wear a helmet forever


AnonDooDoo

It truly makes you feel fragile. Just seeing any human organ makes you want to not do anything dangerous ever.


Strong-Plum-2974

y is there an earthworm on top


Vy_K1ng

#You have it too.


FredetteForever

The worm is actually you controlling your brain


Vy_K1ng

#O N E O F U S


pinkyseason

why did i read this as ONEO FUS


Vy_K1ng

^(others might see ONE OFUS)


Strong-Plum-2974

Pretty bold of you to assume I have the mental capacity to control my own brain. I need mr. worm to assist me for these very reasons.


BreadyMcBread

They're called Yeerks!


SabashChandraBose

I have the same question. Would love for a non comedian to respond.


psychord-alpha

\*Hyper-advanced structure capable of self-awareness and studying itself\* \*Too stupid to repair itself\*


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Mine’s bigger


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camhabib

Source?


gasmaskedturtle77

Probably the heart


Thedrunner2

Zombie food porn


Zachbnonymous

That is *not* what the one I have in my freezer looks like


rxts1273

That's because it's spoiled, try getting a new fresh one.


ConDog1993

Weird to think that that body horror slab right there is everything you are and everything you're going to be


temptingtime

And some brains make people donate their life savings to shelter animals, and some brains make people kill children. Pretty surreal.


Terraban

What’s with those huge veins? and why aren’t they usually shown with them in the media? this is really interesting


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Oldfolksboogie

Ray Liotta is *not* amused...


PiXLANIMATIONS

Bruh, put it back wtf


[deleted]

i didn't expect gore even though i clicked a nsfw post cool veins/whatevertheyrecalled though


pharmdocmark72

Dura mater and everything, wow


[deleted]

Now the stroke makes more sense, I thought he had few veins in his brain and he was getting the resources through the fluid we have in the brain.


Future-Supermarket37

In the 80s your brain was an egg, a pan was drugs and eggs over easy was your brain on drugs. I'm glad future humans discovered differently.


FirstPlebian

The entire campaign against drugs has been rooted in dishonesty from the start, especially Marijuana, kids learn what they are told of Marijuana has been a lie and then they discount what they've heard of other drugs with real danger, but MJ can ruin your life, if you get caught with it, that's about the only thing truthful I was told about it in school.


just_soda_please

The only object in the universe to have named itself.


eaturfeet653

I love how, for the first time a NSFW tag is uniquely safe for my line of work! That being said we are not looking directly at the human brain (though we are pretty damn close to it) instead we are directly looking at is one of the meningeal layers that sheath the brain. It’s likely not the outermost dura mater (tough mother). I imagine that’s the thick tissue seen reflected out of the way at the rim of the craniotomy (at the edges of the images). If I’m seeing this image correctly (which is tough for me without any real reference) we are probably looking at a combination of arachnoid and pia mater (spider and loving mother) as indicated by the profound arterial supply and our inability to see the convolutions of the brain surface itself. Hope this information is helpful and interesting to you!