<div dir="ltr">The lab where I work at Northwestern is using sound to get the same benefits of TMS for certain applications. In fact, sound is even better to enhance slow wave sleep that has many implications for cognition. The trick is to deliver pulses of sound that are synchronized with the positive phase of the brain wave (when the neurons are firing). <br>We have already demonstrated (results shown at conferences, paper coming out soon) we can improve memory in older adults. <br><br><a href="http://news.feinberg.northwestern.edu/2014/11/papalambros-sleep-enhancement-metabolism/">http://news.feinberg.northwestern.edu/2014/11/papalambros-sleep-enhancement-metabolism/</a><div><br>This kind of brain wave locked sound stimulation could be used to stimulate other brain waves to enhance focus and concentration. <br>Sound is converted in internal electrical pulses so it is like TMS or tDCs that is internal instead of external: more natural, efficient and probably with less side effects. <div>By the way, launching startup soon to commercialize our discoveries in the lab. <br><div><br></div><div>Giovanni </div><div><br><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 10:45 AM, spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Hey cool, I just saw something interesting.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">NPR has an article about an experimental treatment for Aspergers called transcranial magnetic stimulation. I didn’t take interest in this because of Aspergers (I can relate however… {8^D) but rather this business of stimulating an area of the brain externally. That just sounds wicked cool. Skip down to about the middle of the article where they show the TMS graphic:<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/07/08/484812170/what-an-hour-of-emotion-makes-visible?utm_source=npr_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20160710&utm_campaign=bestofnpr&utm_term=nprnews" target="_blank">http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/07/08/484812170/what-an-hour-of-emotion-makes-visible?utm_source=npr_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20160710&utm_campaign=bestofnpr&utm_term=nprnews</a><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Is that cool or what?<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">OK, there was a discussion a few days ago on how to measure cognitive enhancement to know if some medication effective, but there are plenty of us who will not eat pills, for good reasons: if it does something bad, you can’t turn it off immediately. But this thing we can.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Idea: iPad app called Chess Free. Its name suggests the cost. It has a setting where you can play blitz, which is five minutes for the game with a five second increment per move, a great way to measure the results of cranial activity realtime. So if you play chess you can measure your performance in realtime with that app, then switch on this device, see if you start to whoop some silicon ass. Move it around to different parts of the skull, see if you can come up with some cool ideas over the board. <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Of course you know what will happen if it works: everybody will soon be seen walking around with odd looking hats with wires and things like the one the mad scientist used to switch the brains of a chicken with Bugs Bunny. Then of course some yahoo will put it next to his other brain. Then if that works, the yahoos will have them in both places, and then we need a backpack to carry the batteries and then our fashions will really start to look even stranger than guys wearing their pants down around their knees.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Where can we get one of these TMS machines? I would try it. I don’t want to risk accidentally curing my mild case of Aspergers however. I like me this way. If that went away it risks my hard-earned geek credentials. If it works, I might even try putting a second one up against my head and playing chess. <span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><u></u><u></u></font></span></p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">spike<u></u><u></u></p></font></span></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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