Anyone tried tDCS therapy?

[SzAdmin]

I recommend people read up on it before you dive into it - its still very early in the research, and there is a lot we don’t know. See these stories:

What We Think We Know and Don't Know About tDCS

“Don’t Lose Your Head Over tDCS,” I warned last time. Now the infamous cadaver study has reared its ugly hot-wired head in Science News (Underwood, 2016). The mechanism of action of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) had been called into question by Dr. György Buzsáki during his presentation at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society meeting. …Or had it? To recap, my understanding was that an unpublished study of transcranial electrical stimulation (TES) in human cadaver heads showed a 90% loss of current when delivered through the skin vs. through the skull. This implies that a current of at least 5 mA on the scalp would be necessary to generate a 1 mV/mm electric field in the hum…

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TDCS for Cognitive Enhancement

Interesting research - and products coming to market from: A related video: and another:

and much more here on our site:

http://forum.schizophrenia.com/search?q=tDCS