Electrical Thinking Caps could heal strokes and speed learning

[Dawn]

Source:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...e-victims.html

Bright sparks: Electrodes on your skull let you learn the piano faster - and could even turn you into a star sportsman

Attaching a nine-volt battery to electrodes on your scalp can speed up the process of learning how to do sequences of button-presses such as learning to play a piece of music on the piano, a study has found.

'In future, we hope to use this, for example, to train sports people faster at tennis or rowing, simply by stimulating their brain,' Professor Johansen-Berg at the University of Oxford told Mail Online today.

'We targeted a specific area of the brain that affects motor function, but is possible that similar technology could be used to make children do better at school - although that obviously raises ethical or moral questions.' Brain scientists say that in just five years, we will have ¿thinking caps¿ that can be worn at home and they could even be used to wake up white matter damaged by stroke.

Brain scientists say that in just five years, we will have ¿thinking caps¿ that can be worn at home and they could even be used to wake up white matter damaged by stroke.

[DNA]

I don't know why but this seems rather distastefull to me. I would rather they find an organic vessel to provide the energy. Like say an electric eel, genetically modified,,,or maybe whatever is in the eel that produces electricity worn in a head band.

Whenever they start this technological brain connection stuff, I can't help but to think where it will be going.

[seko]

Posted by DNA (here)
I don't know why but this seems rather distastefull to me. I would rather they find an organic vessel to provide the energy. Like say an electric eel, genetically modified,,,or maybe whatever is in the eel that produces electricity worn in a head band.

Whenever they start this technological brain connection stuff, I can't help but to think where it will be going.

I'm skeptic about this.

If we are at peace with ourselves and not having to worry about many things in our daily life , we would be able to achieve anything we want, without having to be part if this type of experiments.

[Dawn]

Did you take a look at the idea that it can perhaps heal stroke victims? I think that would be terrific!