Sentences with phrase «electrophysiological undercurrents»

A 2004 paper in the Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology that reviews the «electrophysiological undercurrents for Dr. Frankenstein» notes that Shelley could not have missed the widely discussed work of Giovanni Aldini, Galvani's nephew, who in 1803 zapped the heads of decapitated criminals in an attempt to reanimate them; he imagined this could be used to resuscitate people who had drowned or suffocated and possibly to help the insane.