<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 3 Apr 2012, at 16:42, Stefano Vaj wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail_quote">2012/4/2 Christian Vanderwall <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cvanderwall14@gmail.com">cvanderwall14@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; position: static; z-index: auto; ">
<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>
<br clear="all"></blockquote></div></blockquote><div><br></div>The problem seems to be that the effect only lasts about a couple of hours. Which may be a good thing should things go wrong, but I wouldn't mind keeping the benefits.<br><blockquote type="cite"><br>"and, if you raise the voltage enough, you will also enjoy the additional benefits of old-fashioned electroshock". :-)<br><br>-- <br>Stefano Vaj<br>
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