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Magnetic Stimulation Boosts Memory In Humans
sciencehabit writes: Our memories are annoyingly glitchy. Names, dates, birthdays, and the locations of car keys fall through the cracks, losses that accelerate at an alarming pace with age and in neurodegenerative diseases. Now, by applying electromagnetic pulses through the skull to carefully targeted brain regions, researchers have found a way to boost memory performance in healthy people. The new study (abstract) sheds light on the neural networks that support memories and may lead to therapies for people with memory deficits, researchers say.
Similar studies have been performed using electric current.
Somehow, I think I'll be seeing bullshit products on infomercials that are "proven" to enhance memory that won't actually do anything besides "be magnets that cost $100".(5 easy payments of $19.99)
These are magnetic pulses. No, strapping magnets to your wrist/ankle/belly/tinfoil-hat still won't accomplish anything.
Alex Chiu and his immortality device...
http://www.alexchiu.com/
It is not 1900 anymore. Only nutjobs, hucksters, and credulous people believe (or peddle) that crap.
This guy is living forever because magnets.
Hmm, your belief in chiropraxy seems to be a symptom of a transfinite nth-dimensional neurotronic gluocyte infestation. You're lucky I read your post when I did; continued belief could have caused severe cognitive limitation and/or deficiency, but, out of the goodness of my heart, for only 49,99$ a month, I will make sure to safeguard you from continued influence by daily astral projection sessions.
(tl;dr: chiropractic subluxation is a thing that does not exist)
It's a shame Dr.Bob is no longer with us. Your troll is a mere 1/1000th the power of his.
That the wild ass speculation at the end is given equal footing with a formal study ? Having had a couple of mini-strokes, and having a job that mostly involves concentration, this topic is of interest to me. I can say that adderall (took it a couple of times) and my nootropic cocktail definitely help.
It is annoying how many fundamentalists.there are on here. Intelligent only in the cognitive domain. Science requires agnosticism. Engineering requires pessimism.
I've got this several pound magnet off an old subwoofer. I'm banging it against my head to get the pulsing effect. How long should I do this for??
Hmm, how come when I Google it, it turns out the WHO has a definition of chiropractic subluxation? That doesn't seem like a thing that doesn't exist. It seems unlikely to cause every disease OP listed, but it is not "a thing that does not exist".
FTR:
"A lesion or dysfunction in a joint or motion segment in which alignment, movement integrity and/or physiological function are altered, although contact between joint surfaces remains intact. It is essentially a functional entity, which may influence biomechanical and neural integrity."
Have there been any studies correlating MRI's to better memory?
And/or everybody gets an MRI as part part of your 'getting older checkups' like a colonoscapy?
I had a brain tumour, and lobectomy to remove it. my memory is kinda crappy (except for things that I deem are *VERY* important (like wifes birthday).
I want something to fix me!
"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." ~Plato (427-347 BC)
I have actually found my memory has been getting better with age, but I had a horrible memory as a child. I've been finding that the more I learn, the more ways I have to associate knowledge, allowing me to better recall or learn new knowledge.
It's a shame Dr.Bob is no longer with us. Your troll is a mere 1/1000th the power of his.
Wow. That's an impressive body of work.
It's the rate of change of magnetic flux that does the trick.
So, in theory, standing near a nuclear explosion to get a direct cranial hit from the EMP it generates should do wonders for your mental capacity....
HA! I just wasted some of your bandwidth with a frivolous sig!
It's the rate of change of magnetic flux that does the trick.
So, in theory, standing near a nuclear explosion to get a direct cranial hit from the EMP it generates should do wonders for your mental capacity....
For some definition of "wonders", yes.
Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: If you're seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it.
These miracles keep happening.
Here come the cow magnet hats
By the laws of Homeopathy, that makes it 1000 times more powerful.
I want to take care of my mind too, but I'd rather do so by exercising. I've read several articles, including this one, which said that exercising helps protect your brain from decline. I'm not a doctor, but exercise just seems safer than applying electromagnetic pulses through the skull.
In 2006 my wife reported that her memory improved after she had an MRI taken of her head when she was suffering from memory problems. A few months later, also based on lumbal puncture, she was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimers disease. She reported that her thinking became much more clear. The effect only lasted for half a day. When I told her neurologists, she laughed it away.
Check this guy out Allan Snyder (Crazy looking savant), He has been doing TMS research in to unlocking the potential of the brain for some time now. I would really like to see if this Dr. Joel Voss has looked in to this research as the article did not go in to much detail.
The malleus maleficarum has a definition of witches, that doesn't mean witches exist.
"The same nonsense can be said about chiropractic. It has been proven over and over again that verterbral subluxations are the root cause of many ailments..."
Doctor Bob, is that you? We thought you had died of a subluxation.
Cell phones also produce magnetic fields.
And popular (denial-based) wisdom tells us that THEY CANNOT DO NOT NEVER EVER NEVER FUCK OFF I LOVE MY GADGET THEREFORE IT IS NOT NOT NOT BAD have any effect on cognition. They're non-ionizing! The sun produces more EM, etc.
The many studies which show measurable effects on cognition/behavior often demonstrate positive results at very low powers. You don't need to burn anything. You just need to produce a magnetic field.
Something to keep in mind (if you still can), next time you wade into an EM rich environment.
** WHOOSH! **
how do they work?
Yes. You will absolutely remember every detail of the explosion for the rest of your life.