[ExI] Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation

[Giovanni Santostasi]

Yea, I love the ultrasound approach, very promising but so far all the
experiments are limited to animals, I don't think it has passed safety
trials yet.
I have used myself auditory pulses to enhance slow wave sleep, with pretty
good results.
Giovanni

On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 1:12 PM, Bryan Bishop <kanzure at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2012/4/1 Christian Vanderwall <cvanderwall14 at gmail.com>
>
>> Very cool article about transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS)
>> and its possible applications and moral consequences written by Sally
>> Adee, a woman who has actually tried it.
>
>
> tDCS doesn't seem specific enough to me. Even the arrayed tDCS paper had
> really horrible targetting capability. I think transcranial ultrasound
> still proves to have better targeting. First everyone was up in arms about
> rTMS, which has a few centimeters in targeting, then tDCS again which has
> somewhat *less* resolution, but whatever. Phased ultrasound arrays seems
> like a better plan, because stimulating smaller regions of the brain gives
> you more specific control instead of generic new-ageist "wave therapy".
>
> - Bryan
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