{"id":1355,"date":"2012-04-05T12:36:40","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T16:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thiscontemplativelife.com\/?p=1355"},"modified":"2012-04-05T12:36:40","modified_gmt":"2012-04-05T16:36:40","slug":"how-electrical-brain-stimulation-can-change-the-way-we-think-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/2012\/04\/05\/how-electrical-brain-stimulation-can-change-the-way-we-think-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"How electrical brain stimulation can change the way we think &#8211; The Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theweek.com\/article\/index\/226196\/how-electrical-brain-stimulation-can-change-the-way-we-think\"><img src='http:\/\/www.thiscontemplativelife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/researchers-have-found-that-transcranial-direct-current-stimulation-can-more-than-double-the-rate.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>by Sally Adee<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><\/em>After trying it myself, I have different questions. To make you understand, I am going to tell you how it felt. The experience wasn&#8217;t simply about the easy pleasure of undeserved expertise. For me, it was a near-spiritual experience. When a nice neuroscientist named Michael Weisend put the electrodes on me, what defined the experience was not feeling smarter or learning faster: The thing that made the earth drop out from under my feet was that for the first time in my life, everything in my head finally shut up.<\/p>\n<p>The experiment I underwent was accelerated marksmanship training, using a training simulation that the military uses. I spent a few hours learning how to shoot a modified M4 close-range assault rifle, first without tDCS and then with. Without it I was terrible, and when you&#8217;re terrible at something, all you can do is obsess about how terrible you are. And how much you want to stop doing the thing you are terrible at.<\/p>\n<p>Then this happened&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here is the rest of the article: <a href=\"http:\/\/theweek.com\/article\/index\/226196\/how-electrical-brain-stimulation-can-change-the-way-we-think\">How electrical brain stimulation can change the way we think &#8211; The Week<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And here is the full article in<a title=\"New Scientist: Zap your brain\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg21328501.600-zap-your-brain-into-the-zone-fast-track-to-pure-focus.html?full=true\"> New Scientist<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Sally Adee After trying it myself, I have different questions. To make you understand, I am going to tell you how it felt. The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[345,346,415,433],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}