Noninvasive brain stimulation helps improve motor function in stroke patients

Noninvasive brain stimulation helps improve motor function in stroke patients: "Described in today's Online Issue of the journal Neurology, the findings showed that stroke patients who received bihemispheric transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) coupled with a regimen of physical and occupational therapy had a three-fold greater improvement in motor function compared with patients who received only physical/occupational rehabilitation and a placebo form of stimulation."

Electrical brain stimulation improves math skills - life - 04 November 2010 - New Scientist

Electrical brain stimulation improves math skills - life - 04 November 2010 - New Scientist: "After each session, which involved hundreds of such calculations, they were given tests to see how well they could perform mathematical calculations using the symbols. Those given tDCS learned the symbols faster and did better in the tests than those subjected to a sham procedure.

When the subjects were tested six months later, those who had been given tDCS still did better than those who hadn't. 'It is already known that tDCS affects neurotransmitters involved in learning, memory and plasticity, so we presume that these are being manipulated in this study to cause long-term changes in the brain,' says Cohen Kadosh."