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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I’m reminded of the submarine electrician in “Down Periscope.” Prophecy? The future of medicine?
Too late for Slow Joe. You can’t zap a brain that isn’t there.
If I urinate on an electric fence, will it help with my prostate area?
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!”.
I’m sleeping with my bug zapper tonight for sure
I’ve used tDCS numerous times at 1 to 40 hz.
Bonds is up again ... Fouled down the right field line...it struck the ball girl
Next, the WEF will laud chipping the elderly. GPS. The g is for granny and gramps
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.
Nope, but you might get arrested for indecent exposure.
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.
If I have any memory issues I sure don’t recall them.
Joe wants to know if this can be done during nap time.
Nope. You'll just get a smoked wiener
It’s been shown that people remember not to touch the cattle wire after getting a jolt.
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