The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
these electrodes while they might be sitting in a very small region of the brain there are regions within a few millimeters of where these electrodes are that if stimulated could cause a temporary very brief side effect a moment of laughter like you said or a moment of panic and of course we can just shut that electrode off
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these electrodes, while they might be sitting in a very small region of the brain, there are regions within a few millimeters of where these electrodes are that if stimulated, could cause a temporary, very brief side effect, a moment of laughter, like you said, or a moment of panic.