Can electric improve shocks to the brain math skills?

I was never good at mathematics. Growing up, calculus and physics had, as far as I was concerned. It was all just a long nightmare.

Math skills to stimulation help brain?

Why published an article titled "Electrical brain stimulation improves the math skills," which is Current Biology this week's my eye caught.Endlich, thought I hope for the mathematically in question provided. Hope for people like me.

 

In an experiment, the researchers at Oxford University used a non-invasive brain stimulation technique Transcranial direct current stimulation or TDCS, with one 15 subjects for twenty minutes a day on six-day period called.

Basically, the scientists ran a mild electrical current through the skulls of the volunteers, focusing on the parietal lobes of the brain, the matters most for numerical understanding.They had a placebo group who do not, get the electric current in the right place.

With current operating a system of numbers had invented the scientists informed the volunteers.Later, they gave the subjects tests to see how well you are able to add the information.

What they found was that the brain stimulation improves ability to learn the new figures participants.The placebo group have much worse the test, the topics had the correct placement of the electrical Stroms.Auch, six months later the volunteers who had received the treatment performed well.

You at brain you in Albert Einstein that transform authors of study write is.And it was a very small Experiment.Aber when more and more studies produces the same results, the technique is potentially helpful that 20 percent of the population, moderate to severe numeric disabilities, called dyscalculia.

"You should try this at home? bad idea.""We are not advising people to give even electric shocks, but we are very excited about the potential of the search results," said Dr. Cohen Kadosh, lead author of the study.

And the electrical current spell the death knell for math tutors in the immediate future? it is doubtful.

Daniel Ansari, a neuroscientist at said University of Western Ontario in Canada, National Geographic News he expect that the treatment anytime soon available he said sein.Und, "It necessarily not show improved school relevant learning skills" such as arithmetic operations.

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