Can a Bit of Electricity Improve Your Brain?

Re:Can a Bit of Electricity Improve Your Brain? by bobbydroptables on Thursday October 10, 2019 @05:24PM (#21219329)

I think I agree with everything here. I'm not saying no useful information can be derived. However the risk of the placebo effect or just general healing are hard to rule out on the limited information here. (Maybe OP's brain injury was slowly healing for a year but cognition gains didn't manifest until year two. I don't study brain health and we don't really have any information to make a judgement.)

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Re:Can a Bit of Electricity Improve Your Brain? by brainstim01 on Thursday October 10, 2019 @05:40PM (#21219461)

The whole process has been frustratingly slow. To give some reference: The cognitive recovery was not linear. For the first 6 months I couldn't consume any content. No TV, no music, no internet news. Either the stimulation was overwhelming and/or I couldn't process the information I was receiving. After 14 months I couldn't watch any TV show that was new content, only things I have seen before many times (Simpsons, South Park, etc). After 24 months I could start reading but memory and recall were still very poor. 36 months after I'm able to read and watch new content with moderately successful retention.

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Re:Can a Bit of Electricity Improve Your Brain? by bobbydroptables on Thursday October 10, 2019 @07:16PM (#21220181)

It's good to hear you've made great improvements. If it makes you feel any better, part of your retention may just be a product of being older heh.

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Re:Can a Bit of Electricity Improve Your Brain? by brainstim01 on Monday October 14, 2019 @11:13AM (#21249128)

While I appreciate the sentiment I doubt the age difference between 31 and 34 account for the retention falls under the 'being older' category.

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