# Brain stimulation leads to long-lasting improvements in memory (Nature News, 22 August 2022)
In a study published on 22 August in Nature Neuroscience 1, Robert Reinhart, a cognitive neuroscientist at Boston University in Massachusetts, and his colleagues demonstrate that zapping the brains of adults aged over 65 with weak electrical currents repeatedly over several days led to memory improvements that persisted for up to a month.