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Is DIY Brainhacking Safe?

Posted by Unknown on from the frying-your-brain-for-fun-and-profit dept.

An anonymous reader writes "My colleague at IEEE Spectrum, Eliza Strickland, looked at the home transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) movement. People looking to boost creativity, or cure depression, are attaching electrodes to their heads using either DIT equipment or rigs from vendors like Foc.us. Advocates believe experimenting with the tech is safe, but a neuroscientist worries about removing the tech from lab safeguards..."

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  1. Drugs are probably safer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Can we just legalize drugs instead? Most of them actually have a proven safety record, despite governmental claims (mdma, for example, is significantly less toxic than acetaminophen).

  2. Re:Predictions? by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Edison's Medicine

    Georgia Power cocktail

    Don't taze me, bro'!

    --
    "Flyin' in just a sweet place,
    Never been known to fail..."