researchers at the university of oxford have found that if you use a little bit
of that electric shock therapy in the prefrontal cortex
people learn math faster
so there was a control group and of course there was a group that had
apparent lights electrical currents sent to their pop prefrontal cortex
and would be fair
out was that
the people who have the lecture shock therapy gradually able to learn
new symbols of this is all meet up back at the researchers did great they were
able to learn that meet up version of mad
out faster than the control group and then they all went back to me research
day uh... six months later and even six months later appearance thirty to forty
percent faster and the control
so it's a new
disney and cap you know you not live up to human brains i want to get your
child's i think one thing is to be careful about using the term like
electro shocked because
if we think of traditional lecter shock which actually called electra convulsive
therapy for lake treatment of depression it's a pretty intense ordeal wiki causes
seizures and a kinkos memory loss
in this case it's more probably similar to what we think of as transcranial
magnetic stimulation
where you actually you know putting current third well this is that it's an
interesting kind of a research area
it's not
a well validated treatment area but
research has been done for years in low-level currents being delivered-to
certain parts of the brain from outside the faucets non-invasive
and seeing what kinds of facts they have
if we think about it our brain
functions on two levels
we have a chemical functionality to the brain like their transmitters button
electrical functionality the self actually fire they they put off
electrical current so what they're talking about here is manipulating the
electrical activity very certain regions of the brain inducing some sort of uh...
learning modality which they've done before just not with math
and then and there actually seeing that in the uh... in the non control group in
the experimental group the maths six
so-and-so you know months later the map sticks but you have term you have to
remember
that they've received the electrical stimulation and they practiced max
pia those two things are very important because the other researchers believe
that if they didn't practice map out they were receiving the therapy
that it wouldn't it be has affected by the way at the receive that pat you know
that
stuff
electrical current broke out three minutes
for five days in a row so that's how long the therapy lasted but i think that
this is really interesting our research p_r_i_'s i think you could definitely
help people who are good at particular subjects specifically now to visit him
at which a lot of people do you have issues with
math book from all learning disorder uh... uh... perspective just like the
reading people are just like the people at the scout killer
discount religious graph yep
but also it's it's kind of one of those subjects as a little bit scary for a lot
of people and so at think if they feel like i love this treatment or this
procedure could help you be better there could be a strong placebo effect in
there to like hell i'm going to be better at this because i have this than
you might actually try a little bit harder which isn't just a i have to say
aisle of the quote at the bottom of this i love emily under whatever wrote this
for science now it's hilarious
uh... one of the researcher says we strongly caution you not try this at
home no matter how tempted you may be to slap a battery and the kids have i'm
probably not a good idea capital had been the early stages also
it's not a question that that's what they did it this study was only twenty
five participants i think we need to see a repeated when you see with um... much
larger sample someone
think about uh... like online games that are meant to stimulate you might like to
lou masa is not something that you see probably advertise a lot of our videos
um...
not because we tell them as an advertiser the administrative works
on but i i haven't tried it but to do you think that games like that to
actually work to help stimulate your brain i don't think at i'm not gonna sit
here and say that they're back
free of course they're not bad for you but there's no good clinical evidence to
support that they do anything beneficial either and i love the commercials
because they say things like lamar city is based on your own class
city city
fascinating type of neuroscience
learning
it means and learn stuff you'll remember stuff like of course yes anytime you're
learning something new it's a good for you know it out and that's really all it
is so whether you will need act
video game to tell you that that's what you're doing or you pick up a park
like idea i i don't think it's really necessary
alright i don't know what the mafia's because i use
ammonia say the word is adorning for differences but it's either that the
other server
uh... do but yeah i know i i do like book by the way though we know
like we are a lot of us who does needs we know the video games
positive that impacts on learning things like that
and i looked at you
do you differentiate between the chemical interactions in the brain
electrical interactions the bread because faithfully over the last few
centuries less thousands of years we have been at least anecdotally
experiment in her brain chemical waste in modifying it like that for various
drugs records it's a brave new world though that now we can use uh... to sit
in the brain gap america recently saw probably i hope that this was an onion
article or something like that and i guess i thought they did something akin
to
but for the matrix where the show they they were able to show the images of the
subliminally to people
to get them to learn various skills and um...
i don't know if it's going to be lou masa di or this for the matrix thing but
i love that we're learning more about the brain but i want to be experimented
on i want to learn in on the way it is it's it's a long time to read a book
what does that mean that
movie with bradley cooper and everyone of us a little early to tell you how one
can come up and started well actually it is just about that'll never senator it
would never can we can talk about that right
do you think that the point that you're making
is an important point to take and i think that this is why this green
initiative that obama has that attitude to do this brain activity mapping really
the look at the brain in ways that we did before we have a allot with a huge
body of evidence about localities that bring systems neurosciences a this part
of the brains tends to be highly responsible for this if u demands that
part of the brain you lose this kind of
we also have
a lot of evidence about what happens at the cellular level exactly have a cell
metabolize issue there's exactly how it fires it's the network level that we're
still missing a lot of information
how do those connections come about how to individual cells
all talking to each other give rise to brain activity
and and and that's where it gets really complicated position many different
permutations and combinations and so many different mathematical ways that
yourself can connect any
that didn't numbers the sheer numbers of possibilities and how your brain proved
itself or astronaut literally astronomical like
compare pulled to the number of adams and uh... in the cosmos you know i mean
it gets really fascinating
there's so much more to learn and i think it's
off them
the president wants to push in that direction