Would you ever consider DIY shocktherapy if it could help with headaches, insomnia, depression or any number of other conditions? Because you can, and people do...
Person having a headache who could us transcranial electrical stimulation to help. Midway through the Roman empire, an unnamed court official who answered to Emperor Tiberius stepped on a fish and changed the course of medical history. The electric torpedo fish, common to the Mediterranean, shocked the administrator, who noticed afterward that the gout pain in his leg had greatly subsided.
But is this safe? The new study, a meta-review of other research, found that despite TES’s DIY past, it has “an excellent safety record,” save for some headaches and dizziness and skin irritation where the electrodes touch the head. TES is gentle by design and uses subthreshold currents only strong enough to influence existing brain activity, not switch on new neurons.Skeptics of TES have long questioned its ability to influence the brain given its low-amp approach.
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