[DIYbio] Re: transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS)

Hey everyone, just wanted to post in here showing our new tDCS kit
that is available to order from our webpage. Seems like there is a
good interest in this Google group for one.
http://flowstateengaged.com/

On Feb 8, 7:28 pm, Sam Neurohack <samneuroh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I recently reviewed a bunch of scientific articles about tDCS for a french
> "scientific monthly journal".
>
> I would recommend this
> articlehttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811910014667.
> Follow this link for complete references.
>
> I quote for the Science interest a section of Materials and methods
>
> Subjects
>
> A total of 104 healthy subjects provided informed consent to take part in
> these studies, which was approved by the University of New Mexico Health
> Sciences Center Institutional Review Board. Of these, six subjects were
> consented as a part of these studies who were later rejected for unusual
> levels of performance. These six included subjects whose performance was
> more than two SD above or below the mean level of performance (three
> subjects more than 2 SD above and three below). Another two subjects
> reported sensations of burning or pain during tDCS, one receiving
> full-current and one low-current tDCS. After removing these eight, data
> from 96 subjects remained for analysis.
>
> Yes you read it : "sensation of burning or pain".
>
> By the way you can also appreciate how ridiculously old the Darpa funded
> "virtual reality game" look like... and is far from human perception in
> real life war field and in my little opinion raise questions about the
> final learning skills.
>
> Maybe army get "10% loss" authorization, but I would recommend to think
> twice before trying this crappy (?) tDCS even at placebo current values.
> Especially as there is much clever and simpler ways to improve your
> cognitive performance... like dead simple : good sleep,... :-)
>
> Sam

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