Hi Christian,<div>This is an interesting coincidence because I just finished to attend a session of tDCS at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society conference in Chicago. This topic is very interesting to me. Most talks indeed talked about improvement in performance but the improvement is more something like 15-20 % than 100 % that you mentioned. </div>
<div>I'm not aware of any work that demonstrate such huge effect.</div><div>Giovanni</div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Christian Vanderwall <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cvanderwall14@gmail.com">cvanderwall14@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Very cool article about </font><span style="line-height:21px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) and its possible applications and moral consequences</span><span style="line-height:21px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> written by Sally Adee, a</span><span style="line-height:21px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> woman who has actually tried it.</span></div>
<div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:21px"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:21px">"</span><span style="line-height:21px">they hook you up to what's essentially a 9-volt battery and let the current flow through your brain. After a few years of lab testing, they've found that tDCS can more than double the rate at which people learn a wide range of tasks, such as object recognition, math skills, and marksmanship."</span></font></div>
<br><br><a href="http://theweek.com/article/index/226196/how-electrical-brain-stimulation-can-change-the-way-we-think/1" target="_blank">http://theweek.com/article/index/226196/how-electrical-brain-stimulation-can-change-the-way-we-think/1</a><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
<div><br></div><div>-- Christian</div>
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