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Electrically stimulating your brain can boost memory – but here's one reason it doesn't always work

  • Written by: Shelly Fan, Postdoctoral Scholar in Neuroscience, University of California, San Francisco
imageIs electrical pulse to the brain your favorite memory enhancer?U.S. Air Force photo by J.M. Eddins Jr., CC BY-NC

The first time I heard that shooting electrical currents across your brain can boost learning, I thought it was a joke.

But evidence is mounting. According to a handful of studies, transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), the...

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