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Zapping the brain with electricity shown to boost older people’s short- and long-term memory
statnews ^ | Aug. 22, 2022 | Megan Molteni

Posted on 08/22/2022 2:50:22 PM PDT by BenLurkin

Sending weak electrical current into the brain for 20 minutes a day for four days in a row reversed declines in working and long-term memory that come with aging, scientists reported Monday in Nature Neuroscience. The researchers found that the effects lingered even after the electricity was turned off. When they tested subjects a month later, many of the improvements from the brief sessions of brain stimulation remained.

The findings provide some of the strongest support yet for a method called transcranial alternating current stimulation, or tACS, as a potential means for boosting mental functions essential to navigating the world and understanding one’s own place in it — functions that tend to deteriorate the older people get.

Unlike more invasive forms of brain stimulation that require brain surgery to install chips and implants, tACS involves little more than wearing a modified swimming cap studded with dozens of electrodes. The technology emerged from research into how neuronal networks strung widely throughout the brain coordinate to form, store, and retrieve memories through rhythmic oscillations in neuronal firing known as brain waves. Different parts of the brain pulse and thrum at different frequencies. And over the last two decades, neuroscientists across many labs have found evidence that synchronizing these vibrations across brain regions, similar to how the wind, brass, and string sections of an orchestra tune up before a performance, is a critical component of transferring information from one part to another — the building block of memory.

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: zapping
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1 posted on 08/22/2022 2:50:22 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

I’m reminded of the submarine electrician in “Down Periscope.” Prophecy? The future of medicine?


2 posted on 08/22/2022 2:51:51 PM PDT by LouAvul (Complacency is the enemy of courage.)
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To: BenLurkin

Too late for Slow Joe. You can’t zap a brain that isn’t there.


3 posted on 08/22/2022 2:52:34 PM PDT by rfp1234 (Comitia asinorum et rhinocerum delenda sunt.)
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If I urinate on an electric fence, will it help with my prostate area?


4 posted on 08/22/2022 2:54:33 PM PDT by BipolarBob (lazy FReepers don't have a homepage.)
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To: BenLurkin

Will peeing on an electric fence work. I know I woke up to not doing it again at about age 9 years old? Now I’m in my 70’s and still remember “don’t pee on that!”.


5 posted on 08/22/2022 2:55:09 PM PDT by Equine1952
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To: BenLurkin

I’m sleeping with my bug zapper tonight for sure


6 posted on 08/22/2022 2:56:46 PM PDT by wardaddy (Lawyers guns and money……I lived it…. Now I'm old…. I have wonderful children)
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To: BenLurkin

I’ve used tDCS numerous times at 1 to 40 hz.


7 posted on 08/22/2022 2:57:18 PM PDT by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc O'Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: LouAvul

Bonds is up again ... Fouled down the right field line...it struck the ball girl

https://youtu.be/EHuuU9e0bdg


8 posted on 08/22/2022 2:58:45 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: BenLurkin

Next, the WEF will laud chipping the elderly. GPS. The g is for granny and gramps


9 posted on 08/22/2022 2:59:22 PM PDT by combat_boots
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To: BenLurkin
Participants who received the higher frequency (60 Hz) improved in their ability to remember words from the beginning of the list, reflecting boosts to long-term memory.

60HZ: how convenient for those in the western hemisphere...
10 posted on 08/22/2022 3:03:12 PM PDT by posterchild
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To: BenLurkin

Man Made Monster (1941):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMLZvW8O74M


11 posted on 08/22/2022 3:03:29 PM PDT by rbg81
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To: combat_boots

Chipping my tired old ass won’t be pleasant. I chip back and it is particularly invasive. 230 grains and 950’ a second or so.


12 posted on 08/22/2022 3:05:02 PM PDT by Equine1952
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To: BipolarBob

http://www.lerctr.org/~transit/healy/ballburner.wav


13 posted on 08/22/2022 3:06:55 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: BipolarBob

Nope, but you might get arrested for indecent exposure.


14 posted on 08/22/2022 3:10:32 PM PDT by entropy12 (Trump & MAGA are the only road to keep USA viable.s)
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15 posted on 08/22/2022 3:11:18 PM PDT by fruser1
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“I've used tDCS numerous times at 1 to 40 hz.”

You're getting them confused. tDCS is measured in 1-4 milliamps in usually 10-30 min durations. 2 milliamps is considered optimal and it can get dangerous when you reach 4 milliamps or above. Darpa has done extensive research in enhanced learning using tDCS.

16 posted on 08/22/2022 3:13:32 PM PDT by Polynikes (Nicht geimpft Mensch 2nd Klasse)
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To: BenLurkin

If I have any memory issues I sure don’t recall them.


17 posted on 08/22/2022 3:14:27 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: BenLurkin

Joe wants to know if this can be done during nap time.


18 posted on 08/22/2022 3:18:28 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: BipolarBob
If I urinate on an electric fence, will it help with my prostate area?

Nope. You'll just get a smoked wiener

19 posted on 08/22/2022 3:19:34 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ( If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there..)
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To: BenLurkin

It’s been shown that people remember not to touch the cattle wire after getting a jolt.


20 posted on 08/22/2022 3:32:45 PM PDT by glorgau
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