Brain zap for memory? Hear how it works.
Participants in the active treatment groups wore a shower cap with embedded electrodes that was hooked up to a brain stimulation device that emits weak electrical currents via the electrodes. Each session lasted 20 minutes, and folks were asked to listen to and then immediately recall five lists of 20 words during treatment."Cells that fire together wire together, and thus carry information forward in time [improving memory]," Reinhart said.
Interestingly, people with the lowest cognitive performance when the study started showed the greatest benefits from the brain stimulation. The treatment can be customized to specific memory shortfalls, he added. Based on previous research, Reinhart and colleagues targeted two specific brain regions with two distinct stimulation frequencies.
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