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by CamelRocketFish 1470 days ago
Non-invasive wow! Could you provide more details on it?
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I'm interested, too, but it might be a loose term - sometimes people say "non-invasive" to mean "minimally-invasive" or such. So something that involves opening the skull and placing electrodes on the surface of the brain can be considered "non-invasive" to the brain matter, and endoscopic endonasal surgery is much less invasive than going through the skull.

In fact, "non-invasive operation" is oxymoronic, because an operation or surgery is a medical treatment that is invasive.