[Cyborg] electrodoping
Eric Boyd
mrericboyd at yahoo.com
Sun Apr 17 22:43:41 UTC 2011
http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110413/full/472156a.html
"Volunteers receiving 2 milliamps to the scalp (about one-five-hundredth
the amount drawn by a 100-watt light bulb) showed twice as much
improvement in the game after a short amount of training as those
receiving one-twentieth the amount of current". It's called
transcranial direct-current stimulation (tDCS).
"Students might secretly 'electrodope' with tDCS before a university
entrance exam to inflate their scores"
via
http://games.slashdot.org/story/11/04/17/1647215/A-9V-Battery-To-Your-Brain-Can-Improve-Your-Gaming
Eric
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