Weak Electrical Field Found To Carry Information Around the Brain (eurekalert.org)

Posted by Soulskill on Monday January 18, 2016 @03:25AM from the neural-wifi dept.

Zothecula writes: In a development that could lead to improved understanding of memory formation and epilepsy, scientists have discovered a new way information may be traveling throughout the brain. The team has identified slow-moving brainwaves it says could be carried only by the brain's gentle electrical field (abstract), a mechanism previously thought to be incapable of spreading neural signals altogether. "Although the electrical field is of low amplitude, the field excites and activates immediate neighbors, which, in turn, excite and activate immediate neighbors, and so on across the brain at a rate of about 0.1 meter per second."

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Nothing conclusive yet by Anonymous Coward · 2016-01-18 05:12 · Score: 2, Insightful

Meh, this doesn't seem like it's news yet.
Headline: "Weak Electrical Field Found To Carry Information Around the Brain"
Link: "The only explanation left is an electrical field effect."
They haven't actually measured or proven it yet, and it seems to conflict with existing evidence that electromagnetism doesn't influence thought.