Electrical Brain Stimulation Can Help You Learn Math
Transcranial Stimulation This is an image of a different type of transcranial stimulation than the type researchers studied below. The transcranial random noise stimulation study below required headgear that was about as involved as this. S. Plontke on Open i beta Well, it's one way of getting better at math. What if a painless zap to the brain could improve your ability to do math? Would you do it? It may sound weird, but a new, small study of 25 people has shown that something like this may work. Researchers from the U.K. and Austria found that something called transcranial random noise stimulation helped people learn certain arithmetic faster. The effect still appeared when the researchers tested their study volunteers again six months later. The stimulation required volunteers to get electrical stimulation through their scalps. They get bursts of electrical currents in random frequencies, which seems to make brain cells more excitable. For this...