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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 $19.99)
These are magnetic pulses. No, strapping magnets to your wrist/ankle/belly/tinfoil-hat still won't accomplish anything.
Hmm, your belief in chiropraxy seems to be a symptom of a transfinite nth-dimensional neurotronic gluocyte infestation. You're lucky I read your post when I did; continued belief could have caused severe cognitive limitation and/or deficiency, but, out of the goodness of my heart, for only 49,99$ 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)
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.
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.
"How long" isn't the question, but "how fast". You should be accelerating it to a few kilometers/sec, then reversing its velocity when it's a few millimeters from your scalp. You should probably do this in a vacuum, to avoid confounding influences from shockwaves.
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.
What about living under high tension transmission lines? :)
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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.
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.
In related news, since staring at the sun through a large telescope can damage your retina, DON'T DARE LOOK AT YOUR PHONE SCREEN! It emits DEADLY PHOTONS of electromagnetic RADIATION!!11!
Something to keep in mind should you ever decide to timidly stick your head out of your cave.
I know you're being facetious, but the computer screen is actually a pretty good example to work with in explaining this point, which I will attempt...
Screens don't damage your retina. (I actually spent a few days digging through this subject in an effort to verify that one way or the other). However, they can have other deleterious physiological/neurological effects, one of which being blue light, which at night can serve to mess up your sleep rhythms and your melatonin levels.
Understanding these effects allows me to modulate my use of screen time intelligently, and if not mitigate the risks, take responsibility for them. I do not pretend that my circadian rhythm isn't being screwed up as I type this at 3:00 AM, for instance. I accept that. I know what I'm doing to myself, and I'm willing to pay for it because the benefits are big enough and the downside is manageable.
The same process can be extended to cell phone EM. After doing the requisite research (which most people simply prefer not to bother with), I found that bad-news effects were such that I consider the appropriate response to be not owning a cell phone and to use ethernet cables where reasonably possible. -Because those are easy measures and I don't consider the benefit of wireless technology to be worth the cost.
I've made an informed decision. Most people cannot make that claim because they avoid truly informing themselves.
Of course, you can't avoid cell phone EM these days. Too many ignorant/compliant people walk around with them, radiating everybody in their vicinity. -I can usually feel it when a bunch of Wifi zoodles cluster around me with their microwave emitters, and that sucks. But I can certainly minimize the pollution in my own space, so I do.
how do they work?
Nope. "High tension" means high voltage, which is done so they can get away with low current, which means low magnetic (b-field) coupling. And the rate-of-change is also low, because it's a 60hz sine wave, not an aggressive fast-rise-time pulse. Finally, it's a line (approximately), not a coil -- the magnetic flux is proportional to the number of turns, and for a transmission line the number of turns is 1.
Now, the electric field effects from high-tension lines are another matter entirely.
Yes. You will absolutely remember every detail of the explosion for the rest of your life.