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Re:The ethics of brain boosting by kragen on Monday January 30, 2012 @01:27PM (#3529947)
Reading your post, it occurred to me that its tone sounds very similar to things I've written when I had had a lot of caffeine, or was on methylphenidate ("Ritalin") for a long time. In my case, prolonged methylphenidate use induced mild psychosis, a known effect that is common in long-term users of the pharmacokinetically similar amphetamine family, which also dramatically improves learning performance.

Thus extrapolating, I wonder if tDCS use might also induce psychosis.

Going off methylphenidate on the weekends ameliorated the psychotic effects, but some of the psychosis-induced beliefs persisted for quite a while.

I was 9.

Re:The ethics of brain boosting by ORLIN1 on Tuesday January 31, 2012 @08:02AM (#3533037)
maybe yes overstlimulation can boost data procesing in brain in extreme cases start hyperasociative states where is conect information than not normali linked.

there is only small border between geniality(new ideas) and madnes