[Neuro] tDCS at Noisebridge?

[Kelly]

To be honest, I kind of disapprove of aiming them or believing you are
aiming them. Like I said, uber-skeptic. I won't believe the aiming
stuff without an MRI and a head model for *your head* and then a lot
of math. And maybe not then.

There are a lot of TDCS studies though so you can largely treat your
head as a black box, and this is perfectly acceptable science.
Anything that goes on inside the box is a hypothesis. There are some
solid results given specific parameter combinations, and I would
expect that you can replicate those, and maybe you can test some
hypotheses as well, so long as you're careful.

I'm sure John will include safety parameters...

-Kelly

On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 9:49 PM, Anthony Di Franco <di.franco at gmail.com> wrote:
> I meant the question in the general sense you point out.
>
> On Apr 17, 2013 6:25 PM, "Mike Schachter" <mschachter at eigenminds.com> wrote:
>>
>> Out of curiosity - what effect are you trying to achieve? Wouldn't that
>> dictate where you "aim" it?
>>
>>  mike
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 6:17 PM, Anthony Di Franco <di.franco at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> More to the point then, what's the best prior info right now on how to
>>> aim these things?
>>>
>>> On Apr 17, 2013 3:34 PM, "Kelly" <hurtstotouchfire at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I am way more skeptical of tdcs than the average tdcs hobbyist because I
>>>> basically do data analysis and modeling and almost no practical
>>>> applications, so I am trained to be overly critical and believe nothing.
>>>>
>>>> That said, you should probably make some notes about task structure and
>>>> timing, stimulation time, current direction, and the location and size of
>>>> both anode and cathode.
>>>>
>>>> John is pretty good at being skeptical of the literature though, so I
>>>> expect he will have things to add or leave out per task. Those are the
>>>> basics I would want to see from a rough science perspective though.
>>>>
>>>> On Apr 17, 2013 6:11 PM, "Anthony Di Franco" <di.franco at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I can appreciate both the idea that phrenology doesn't work and the
>>>>> idea that there is some amount of statistical consistency across populations
>>>>> in roughly what brain regions do what and how people respond to stimulation
>>>>> of various kinds in various regions.
>>>>> Where would you say the distinction relevant to playing with tdcs is,
>>>>> if you can? (So this can be part of the documentation being assembled, I
>>>>> hope.)
>>>>>
>>>>> On Apr 17, 2013 3:04 PM, "Kelly" <hurtstotouchfire at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'd just like to remind everyone that phrenology doesn't work,
>>>>>> regardless of what you put in your table. But a list of some basic regions
>>>>>> with citations would be an awesome start. It's probably worth making roughly
>>>>>> tabular even if some line items are wildly less dependable than others
>>>>>> because there are probably a few parameters that you care about for each
>>>>>> region.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> K
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Apr 17, 2013 4:33 PM, "John Withers" <jwithers at reddagger.org>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 04/17/2013 01:10 PM, Anthony Di Franco wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> A section on some hackerspace's wiki summarizing where to put what
>>>>>>>> kind of stimulation to accomplish what would be ideal.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Yeah, I am actually working on that. It's part of a larger project
>>>>>>> and going to take me another few days to complete. But when I am done I will
>>>>>>> make sure there are links to it on the noisebridge wiki as well that of a
>>>>>>> couple of other spaces.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> j
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