[ExI] Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation

[Bryan Bishop]

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
http://heybryan.org/
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