Electric currents boost brain power
A current of .002 amps across the brain: www.nature.com/news/2004/041025/full/041025-9.html
Connecting a battery across the front of the head can boost verbal skills, says a team from the US National Institutes of Health. Iyer says more work needs to be done to explain the effect, but she speculates that the current changes the electrical properties of brain cells in the prefrontal cortex, the brain region through which it passes. She believes that the cells fire off signals more easily after the current has gone by.
Source: novaspivack.typepad.com/nova_spivacks_weblog/2004/10/zapping_your_br.html
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10/29/2004 at 4:54 pm
Electric current boosts brain power... Electric current boosts brain power...