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Temporary Brain Changes Lead to Accelerated Learning
An anonymous reader writes "In an advance that could help the treatment of learning impairments, strokes, tinnitus and chronic pain, UT Dallas researchers have found that stimulating nerves in the brain accelerates learning in laboratory tests. When the juice was turned off, researchers monitoring brain activity in rats found that brain responses eventually returned to their pre-stimulation state — but the animals kept the ability to perform their newly learned tasks."
This is the reason I never leave home without a balloon attached to my tin foil hat.
Normal existence:
1. Be presented with a new non compulsory task
2. Learn at your own leisure
Lab Existence:
1. Be presented with a new task
2. Have brain zapped repeatedly
3. Learn task faster to alleviate zapping
. .
What could possibly go wrong with accellerating brain function in rats.
I for one welcome our new super intelligent rat overlords.
Don't worry, it may not have accelerated brain function. It was probably just the rats saying, "Holy F*CK! I better learn this trick so the guy in white coat can stop shocking the sh*t out of my skull!"
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Life would be much simpler if we all had to literally run through mazes and be punished or rewarded by soulless overlords, rather than just figuratively.
It's like the mind going AWOL, it's there somewhere
Interesting... would it be possible to come by in a lab coat with a cattle prod? For no reason in particular...
It's like the mind going AWOL, it's there somewhere
One step closer to "I know kung fu."
Sadly, still millions of steps to being in any sort of physical condition to use it.
"I know sumo?"