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Re:Small Trial Reverses a Year of Alzheimer's Cognitive Decl... by benogorek on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @07:35AM (#21135300)
Apparently this works on healthy people as well (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5592297/). "it was proposed that use of emerging brain stimulation techniques might also enhance physical and mental performance in sports." Anybody...want to try it?
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Re:Small Trial Reverses a Year of Alzheimer's Cognitive Decl... by ItsMattyG on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @09:57AM (#21136460)
I wouldn't be surprised if, like TES, this causes neurological tradeoffs.

https://www.jneurosci.org/content/33/10/4482.abstract

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Re:Small Trial Reverses a Year of Alzheimer's Cognitive Decl... by benogorek on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @10:15AM (#21136660)
"Stimulation to the the posterior parietal cortex facilitated numerical learning, whereas automaticity for the learned material was impaired." Fascinating.
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Re:Small Trial Reverses a Year of Alzheimer's Cognitive Decl... by kingkawn on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @08:17AM (#21135561)
I believe this already has some limited use in the military.

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2019.0011...

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