Posted on 11/07/2006 7:26:23 PM PST by annie laurie
Applying a gentle electric current to the brain during sleep can significantly boost memory, researchers report.
A small new study showed that half an hour of this brain stimulation improved students’ performance at a verbal memory task by about 8%. The approach enhances memory by creating a form of electrical current in the brain seen in deep sleep, the researchers suggest.
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The students’ various sleep stages were monitored using an electroencephalogram (EEG) machine. When the students entered a period of light sleep, Born’s team started to apply a gentle current in one-second-long pulses, every second, for about 30 minutes. The EEG readings revealed that this current had put students into a deeper state of sleep.
The next morning, the students performed about 8% better on the word memory test than when they underwent the same type of memory experiment without brain stimulation.
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There is growing evidence that brain stimulation might one day help improve memory in patients with dementia or other forms of cognitive impairment, experts say.
“It could be very useful to restore function in people with brain injury,” says Daniel Herrera at Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York, US, who has studied the effects of brain stimulation in rats.
(Excerpt) Read more at newscientist.com ...
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Somehow the apostrophe in the title became a question-mark (I copy-pasted, so not sure how that happened).
Can you help? Sorry for the trouble.
Thanks :)
Is that AC or DC current?
Just want to know if I should stick my big toe in the light socket tonight or hook the jumper cables to the tractor battery......
Details..I need details.....
Ooooh look, a shiny object....
A sample size of 13 with a change of 8% is not statistically significant. If this was not a double blind experiment with a control group then it is junk science. There is no excuse for bad science anymore. It is criminal fraud.
For the men, do you know the best way to remember your anniversary and/or your wife’s birthday?
Forget it once.
Regards,
Rubber_Nose
Quite true; still an interesting concept, however.
Just stick your tongue to a 9 volt battery...
Just stick your tongue to a 9 volt battery...
Just stick your tongue to a 9 volt battery...
Aaaaaahhhhhhhh!
Thap hurps......
This is the sort of thing that usually comes from pravda.ru.
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