Fieldcraft DARPA wants to zap(tDCS) your brains

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Interesting article . . .

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21....html?full=true

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Weisend, who is working on a US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency programme to accelerate learning, has been using this form of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) to cut the time it takes to train snipers. From the electrodes, a 2-milliamp current will run through the part of my brain associated with object recognition - an important skill when visually combing a scene for assailants.

The mild electrical shock is meant to depolarise the neuronal membranes in the region, making the cells more excitable and responsive to inputs. Like many other neuroscientists working with tDCS, Weisend thinks this accelerates formation of new neural pathways during the time that someone practises a skill. The method he is using on me boosted the speed with which wannabe snipers could detect a threat by a factor of 2.3 (Experimental Brain Research, vol 213, p 9).</div></div>

Anyone up for a DIY tDCS machine?

 

[UKDslayer]

Re: DARPA wants to zap(tDCS) your brains

I can completely relate to the concept of "flow" they described, I can owe much of my academic success to it. But, putting electrodes to my head - pass. Many of the original doctors who used "shock" therapy were admonished by their peers for attempting mind control

 

[Va_Gentleman]

Re: DARPA wants to zap(tDCS) your brains

It would be factor of 4x if they apply the electrodes to your nuts. You learn quick.

 

[Awesymoto]

Re: DARPA wants to zap(tDCS) your brains

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: VA Gentleman</div><div class="ubbcode-body">It would be factor of 4x if they apply the electrodes to your nuts. You learn quick. </div></div>

My first though... much cheaper too.

 

[AKAce]

Re: DARPA wants to zap(tDCS) your brains

We tried this with a Shock Collar before a practice shoot.... he was Still a Idiot.

 

[KYS]

Re: DARPA wants to zap(tDCS) your brains

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: ~Ace~</div><div class="ubbcode-body">We tried this with a Shock Collar before a practice shoot.... he was Still a Idiot. </div></div>

I think the collar made him worse actually. That was the same time in which he fired a 22 from the line about 4ft in front of us.

 

[ArcticLight]

Re: DARPA wants to zap(tDCS) your brains

and 25 years from now it'll cause cancer.