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Brain zaps boost memory in people over 60, study finds
Star Advertiser ^ | 8 April 2019

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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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Education; Health/Medicine; Science
KEYWORDS: brain; memory; voltage
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To: dp0622

My area of research is the interaction between the physical brain and human consciousness. Thus, I follow all the neuroscience research in this area. In addition, I attend the American Psychiatric Association Annual Conference, several neuroscience conferences and many clinical research conferences every year.

The key to all of this is brainwave frequencies. It is how all the mystics in all religions are able to perform the miracles attributed to them.

The ECT and TMS electrical stimulation merely temporarily stimulates the action potential firing rate of the pyramidal neurons in the cortex, amygdala and hippocampus, facilitating or inhibiting communication with the greater consciousness of our soul which extends far beyond the physical body.

Religion comes into this as Love is the energy that brings the masculine and feminine consciousness together in wholeness which stabilizes the soul or consciousness facilitating it to reach higher frequencies. Sin is any obstacle to Love in the soul that creates a disconnect. Sin prohibits the soul from reaching the higher frequencies.

Consciousness itself becomes a physical object to the perception of a person functioning at the higher frequencies of consciousness. This is how the mystics knew the thoughts of everyone around them.

What I have shared is a very small portion of a very complex subject.


81 posted on 04/08/2019 7:59:15 PM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: Gay State Conservative
Now that I'm much,*much* closer to the grave than to the cradle I've found that my memory ain't what it used to be. I live near Harvard Medical School and have participated in research studies there before so maybe I'll make some calls to see if any researchers affiliated with Harvard doing this kind of research.

Ask them if any student would pass according to HARVARD LAWS OF 1642

BTW, ever see this vid of street preachers in Boston? We need more like the Bob one.

82 posted on 04/08/2019 7:59:17 PM PDT by daniel1212 (Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
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To: tired&retired

Your reply was very insightful. Thank you.

Unfortunately, the only thing I’m thinking about right now is YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN and that Abbey Normal brain


83 posted on 04/08/2019 8:01:04 PM PDT by smvoice (I WILL NOT WEAR THE RIBBON)
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To: lee martell

“Didn’t work out too well for one Ernest Hemmingway.”

https://worldhistoryproject.org/1960/11/ernest-hemingway-is-admitted-to-the-mayo-clinic

What a tragic end. The man was a great writer in his day.


84 posted on 04/08/2019 8:04:50 PM PDT by Darnright (We live in interesting times.)
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To: smvoice

Consciousness or the soul exists even without a physical body.

I have often wondered where the soul came from that occupies cloned animals. Was Dolly the sheep, the first cloned animal a soul that had left a deceased body previously and that is why she prematurely aged? I make no claim to any answer. I just ponder such questions.

Although I do not advertise or seek to do the work, for many years people call me to remove ghosts or earthbound spirits from their homes. They are merely souls that left their physical bodies and did not go to the Light. I help them go home. I do the same with people who are dying, merely guiding them as they leave their physical body to move upward.


85 posted on 04/08/2019 8:07:35 PM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: Darnright

“The man was a great writer in his day.”

He was quite the adventurer. I attended a wedding at his house in Key West and learned quite a bit about him. He had a great sense of humor, especially after much drink, which was frequent.


86 posted on 04/08/2019 8:10:59 PM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

You first buddy. LOL!


87 posted on 04/08/2019 8:12:17 PM PDT by 43north (Its hard to stop a man when he knows he's right and he keeps coming.)
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To: tired&retired

Small portion or not i didn’t understand a word of it :)

You sound like a brilliant guy an I hope you accomplish what it is you are aiming for to help people.


88 posted on 04/08/2019 8:13:45 PM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

I saw a cap of some sorts, with electric stimulation kinda like a tens unit on TV this evening. I’m way over 60 and use Sudoku to stimulate my brain.


89 posted on 04/08/2019 8:16:45 PM PDT by native texan (awaiting His return)
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To: 43north
You first buddy.

I've done it many times, even in the Offical Grunt Microwaver.

The grapes are fun but burned out old-style incandescent bulbs are better, you can start with a new bulb and the filament will self destruct, then the show begins!

Do not let it go too long, the bulb cannot take the heat and shatters, then you need to clean the mess.

I had a big old Nixie tube, that was best, while it lasted.

90 posted on 04/08/2019 8:30:41 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!")
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To: tired&retired

I must apologize.

You posted a serious response and I gave a flippant answer.

Mostly I like to have some fun and learn a few things.
Not thinking about your post, I jumped to have fun without comprehending.


91 posted on 04/08/2019 8:44:36 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!")
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To: tired&retired

>I attended a wedding at his house in Key West and learned quite a bit about him.<

I was there at his home about a year or so ago. It’s a beautiful place. Hemingway surely was quite the character. He was a master storyteller and adventurer.


92 posted on 04/08/2019 8:44:55 PM PDT by Darnright (We live in interesting times.)
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To: DesertRhino

LOL!!!


93 posted on 04/08/2019 8:48:15 PM PDT by pax_et_bonum (Never Forget the SEALs of Extortion 17 - and God Bless The USA and President Trump.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

It’s settled then, build it here for higher quality and US jobs. And when he’s not busy being a defendent, Mike’s corporate counsel!


94 posted on 04/08/2019 9:08:20 PM PDT by Made In The USA (Next thing you know, 'ol Jed's a millionaire)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

No need to apologize. I tend to freak out the rigid scientists. Although I am one.


95 posted on 04/08/2019 9:10:50 PM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: Darnright

My favorite story was the huge urinal he carried home from the bar to be a fountain next to his wife’s beautiful pool.


96 posted on 04/08/2019 9:13:31 PM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

What causes the plasma ignition? Or more specifically, where does the plasma come from?


97 posted on 04/08/2019 10:00:18 PM PDT by 43north (Its hard to stop a man when he knows he's right and he keeps coming.)
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To: daniel1212

Holy crap, that page is illegible. The font and the colors.


98 posted on 04/08/2019 11:33:31 PM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: DUMBGRUNT
Never mind the memory--how about a zapper for my leaky bladder?

The Ankle Zap That Fixed My Waterworks


99 posted on 04/08/2019 11:45:49 PM PDT by henbane
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To: native texan

well, here I am, wrong again! Just saw the ad and its for growing your hair back! Ha


100 posted on 04/09/2019 3:01:23 AM PDT by native texan (awaiting His return)
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