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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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To: rfp1234

“Too late for Slow Joe. You can’t zap a brain that isn’t there.”
Never was there. Gropy Grandpa is the president of DENSA and has been for the past 60 years. Membership of this extinguished organization is required in order to be a member of the DemocRAT party.


21 posted on 08/22/2022 3:35:17 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Polynikes

Not confused at all; that’s why I specified tDCS, idiot. Max 2 ma. Trained as neuroscientist.


22 posted on 08/22/2022 3:35:24 PM PDT by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc O'Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: combat_boots
Next, the WEF will laud chipping the elderly. GPS. The g is for granny and gramps

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/free-speech/brian-bradley/2022/08/22/yikes-world-economic-forum-claims-solid-rational-reasons

23 posted on 08/22/2022 3:47:40 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: BenLurkin
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5W6W7BUOxx8

Gimmie gimmie shock treatment - Ramones

24 posted on 08/22/2022 3:50:55 PM PDT by frogjerk (I will not do business with fascists)
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To: grey_whiskers

Get, have you looked into emf anti-radiation/chaos devices? I happened on emf harmony and am curious.


25 posted on 08/22/2022 3:53:56 PM PDT by combat_boots
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To: combat_boots

Not get but gw

Sand iPad


26 posted on 08/22/2022 3:54:29 PM PDT by combat_boots
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To: combat_boots

Dang it


27 posted on 08/22/2022 3:54:48 PM PDT by combat_boots
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To: steve86

The tDCS is pulsed, not oscillated like AC counterpart.


28 posted on 08/22/2022 3:55:08 PM PDT by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc O'Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: BenLurkin
Got my fix years ago.


29 posted on 08/22/2022 4:14:22 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: BenLurkin

How many watts?


30 posted on 08/22/2022 4:21:42 PM PDT by crz
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To: BenLurkin

31 posted on 08/22/2022 4:22:46 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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To: Equine1952

Never did that. What was it like? Did you have to pee after?

I have got to close to weed burners fencers though. Just dam!


32 posted on 08/22/2022 4:23:28 PM PDT by crz
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To: combat_boots

No, I haven’t.


33 posted on 08/22/2022 4:25:06 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Libloather
As a bonus, that method can give you a new hairdo too.


34 posted on 08/22/2022 4:25:47 PM PDT by Songcraft
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To: steve86

My My a little butt hurt are we. Did you ever succeed.?

You shouldn’t have expressed it in HZ.
https://neuromodec.org/what-is-transcranial-alternating-current-stimulation-tacs/

” In many ways tACS is similar to tDCS as a neuromodulatory technique, but instead of applying a direct electrical current, tACS oscillates a sinusoidal current at a chosen frequency to interact with the brain’s natural cortical oscillations. Generally, a large electrode is placed over an area of interest which applies stimulation while a reference electrode is placed in a neutral location. When a single, low frequency (< 100 Hz) frequency is applied the exogenous oscillation can synchronize with the brain’s endogenous frequency.

We do agree <= 2 ma is a safe max.


35 posted on 08/22/2022 4:28:14 PM PDT by Polynikes (Nicht geimpft Mensch 2nd Klasse)
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To: crz

As I recall it brought tear to my eyes and I kneeled and said a prayer. Then wiped that out cursing Wayne. But I have a great memory for old stuff. As a recommendation for others I’d not recommend this treatment. Some 💩needs to be forgotten. 😜


36 posted on 08/22/2022 4:49:59 PM PDT by Equine1952
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To: Equine1952
I got a lesson when i worked on a Johnny popper one time.

Reached in to do something and accidentally touch the plug.

Them magnetos are hot.

37 posted on 08/22/2022 4:58:51 PM PDT by crz
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To: BipolarBob

Yes. Go use your neighbors fence right now.

Just don’t cross streams. /ghostbusters


38 posted on 08/22/2022 6:17:58 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: BenLurkin

39 posted on 08/22/2022 6:24:17 PM PDT by GaltAdonis
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To: crz
Posted to all who may not know what a 'Johnny Popper' is...

All of the John Deere two-cylinder Tractors from the
original Model D in 1924, to the last series in 1958/1960
were called "Johnny Poppers" or "Poppin' Johnnies"...


40 posted on 08/22/2022 6:34:18 PM PDT by GaltAdonis
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