Boosting Your Brain With Batteries

Bifurcati writes "Running a tiny current acrosss your head increases your verbal skills reports Nature News. 103 nervous volunteers received 2 thousandths of an amp and showed a 20% improval in a simple verbal test, compared to a control group (same setup, just no current in the wires). Somebody better buy the politicians a couple of car batteries..."

Comments

Burn Out

[silverfuck]

What happens when you up the voltage on your CPU? That bathtub curve becomes a lot shorter in timespan.

Hope the same doesn't happen with your brain.

Increasing evidence of biologic effect

[PIPBoy3000]

It's been interesting to watch the debate on electric fields and the effect on biologic systems.

There's some evidence that shows there's an association with cancer and some evidence that shows that it's perfectly safe. Long time cell phone users appear to be at risk for benign tumors. Now this study shows there's a possibly beneficial effect.

Personally, the idea that there's any effect at all makes me somewhat nervous. I spend eight hours a day a couple feet away from EMF generators, as do most of the Slashdot crowd. Knowing that my computers might be tweaking my neurons or altering my DNA, however slightly, doesn't exactly fill me with glee.

Somebody should mock up a circuit for this

[macz]

I want to see some AAA powered diagrams and try this at home. It is the frontal lobe, beneath a full 3/4 " of hardened calcium (in some, harder than others). We should be able to empirically test this by finding spelling errors in subsequent posts.