Electric brain stimulation can enhance a person's maths ability for up to six months

[The Straight Story]

Electric brain stimulation can improve maths: study


LONDON, Nov. 4, 2010 (Reuters) — Stimulating the brain with a very low electric current can enhance a person's maths ability for up to six months, British neuroscientists said on Thursday.

Researchers at Britain's Oxford University studied 15 volunteers and demonstrated for the first time that electrical stimulation of the brain improved their performance in a series of maths assessments, and continued to do so half a year later.

"We're not advising people to go around giving themselves electric shocks, but we are extremely excited by the potential of our findings and are now looking into the underlying brain changes," said Oxford's Cohen Kadosh, who led the study.

"Electrical stimulation is unlikely to turn you into the next Einstein, but if we're lucky it might ... help some people to cope better with maths."

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre6a340f-us-brain-maths-stimulation/

Line them kids up for the tests the govt makes em pass and shock em :)

[Swede]

1. Interesting.

I wonder where this will lead?

[xchrom]

2. i'd need a power plant to get better at 'maths'. nt

[pipi_k]

9. hah...me too. I'm a self-described math-moron...

It's like a foreign language to me.

I see numbers and the "lights" go off. Nobody is home...

[Motown_Johnny]

3. can we use this on Congress?

[SurfingScientist]

5. you beat me to the basic idea by a few secs... see below re. batteries :) (EOM)

[SurfingScientist]

4. So, if we shoved a battery up every teabagger's @$$...

... would that make them smarter??? :smoke:

[B Calm]

8. Ha Ha, it might help!

[RC]

6. Nothing is free. What is the cost to the brain?

[WhiteTara]

7. however, spelling

will fall at the same rate.
just joking... a person's maths

[Mimosa]

10. K&R Interesting research and more interesting stories at the link. n/t