Posted on 04/08/2019 3:49:17 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
Zapping the brains of people over 60 with a mild electrical current improved a form of memory enough that they performed like people in their 20s, a new study found...
During a sham stimulation, the older group was less accurate than the younger participants. But during and after 25 minutes of real brain stimulation, they did as well. The improvement lasted for at least another 50 minutes after the stimulation ended, at which point the researchers stopped testing. It’s not clear how long the benefit reached beyond that, Reinhart said, but previous research suggests it might go for five hours or more after stimulation stops.
Researchers got the same result with a second group of 28 subjects over age 62.
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The number of wraps around the lead could be tricky, to many and too much current...
If this works it might be better than the memory pills i forgot about.
Notes to self:
1) Do not zap your brain because some researcher said it was good to do.
2) If you forget this, then maybe zapping your brain won’t hurt.
Can you zap your brain through a tin foil hat?
This explains why people who get tazed immediately understand what mistake they made.
*We will keep shocking you until you tell us where you lost your car keys.
ROTFL!
DON’T TAZE ME BRO!!!
I thought they used to say zapping the brain causes memory loss!
Didn’t I see something like this in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest?
Will this gadget soon be available at Target?
There are no Circuit City or Radio Shack stores anymore.
I’ll get one for home and a second to keep in the car’s glove compartment!
After reading this I’ve been trying to bypass the safety switch on the door of my microwave. Thirty seconds on the Defrost setting ought to be safe, y’think? I’ll let everyone know if I succeed... if I remember.
Depends on where you zap. Which lobe of the brain, as in electro shock therapy. Didn’t work out too well for one Ernest Hemmingway.
Harbor Freight will have them on sale for $19.99.
Sex has been doing that just as well for years...
Excellent. I’ll order online so I won’t have to be heard asking the cashier for one.
Friend of mine with depression few years ago accidently ran into an electric fence for cows and got a mild shock.
I’ve tended to an older woman who had alzheimer’s dementia. She went for shock treatment.
Prior to could not remember who she was. She also could not walk.
Came back from treatment able to walk and talked to me about her 4 sons, their names, stuff about them.
I was amazed.
Uplifted her spirits for long time.
Do not zap your brain because some researcher said it was good to do.
I need all the help I can get.
The kids take after their mother, and believe it or not, she is very sharp.
Is there some rule of thumb about how many wraps and how much current is induced?
Trying to find a safe starting point, without waiting for the neighbor to get home from the tavern, to test it?
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