A team from Northwestern University in Illinois conducted the small pilot study on 15 seniors where they were given 30 minutes of transcranial magnetic stimulation. A day after the treatment, the seniors demonstrated near-normal memory scores when compared with healthy 25-year-old subjects.
A team from Northwestern University in Illinois conducted the small pilot study on 15 seniors. For five days, the seniors underwent 30 minutes of transcranial magnetic stimulation, or TMS, a procedure administered from a non-invasive device that uses magnetic fields to stimulate nerve cells in the brain.
The study was small, and the improvements temporary, but lead investigator Joel Voss, an associate professor at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, called his team’s findings “fairly remarkable.” "As we get older, that communication between the hippocampus and the rest of its network, so to speak, goes down, and that is associated with aging memory impairment. And what we found in our study at least is TMS … improves the communication between those regions and thereby improves people’s memory ability,” he said.
Even so, there are some obvious drawbacks. Studies have yet to prove that the memory-boosting benefits of electric stimulation last longer than a few days."I wouldn’t say that this is a cure for memory decline. We still need to learn a lot more about how much stimulation it actually takes to have a lasting effect,” he said.
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No not a good idea because one of the side effects is that this kind of stimulation might do more harm then good! One thing they need to watch out for is that someone's memory could be further dammaged rather then being repaired due to the fact that an…
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