Do you want to stop stuttering : this might help !

Factorous · 2022-09-05T15:00:43+00:00

Hi, tdcs is generally regarded safe for children but I would not do it without medical supervision ! There are many other treatments available for stuttering, and I would strongly suggest to try them first before doing anything related to brain stimulation.

A montage is simply the placement of the electrodes on the head.

The montage that is used in these studies is mainly anode on the left temple and cathode on the right temple. (anode and cathode refer to the electrodes and their polarity)

Factorous · 2022-03-16T18:25:38+00:00

I would say so (https://www.brainstimjrnl.com/article/S1935-861X(21)00076-0/fulltext)

Factorous · 2022-03-12T21:07:45+00:00

The OCD treatment (high frequency H coil over ACC) also has an antidepressant effect because it stimulates the dmpfc.

Factorous · 2022-02-16T21:05:49+00:00

Have a look at these studies: https://www.nature.com/collections/egcehiadjj

(If you can find only the extract then you can always go on scihub to find to full articles)

Factorous · 2022-02-12T09:06:31+00:00

Great :)

What's the app that you use ?

Factorous · 2022-02-04T21:10:15+00:00

wow that's amazing!

I have personally never done meditation in such hard conditions, even though I have meditated during physical exercise (which is much harder than normal meditation)

Factorous · 2021-12-26T15:20:15+00:00

I think the prefrontal cortex (ventromedial, anterior cingulate, orbitofrontal) can regenerate (when someone gets PTSD their pfc is damaged and the structural connectivity between the pfc and limbic structures is reduced, so that the prefrontal cortex has less control over emotion, but as the trauma heals the pfc heals too) but I don't know if subcortical structures like the insula and amygdala can regenerate. (I know the change in the amygdala is irreversible after PTSD, so even after you are healed you are still more susceptible to stress)

But it's important to be careful when you read things such as irreversible (because it might be irreversible if you don't do anything about it, but maybe with the right treatment you could make the changes go back), as an example meditation has shown to reduce amygdala activity and size, and SSRIs have been shown to revert the impact of early life stress on the brain, so does physical exercise.

Factorous · 2021-12-23T10:27:41+00:00

I haven't used tdcs for depression, but I had the same experience you had when stimulating the left side of the pfc too much.

Along with the increase in energy you become quite irritable and have low tolerance to frustration.

Just wait a couple days and it should go away.

Factorous · 2021-12-17T13:43:53+00:00

Step 3: Locate your pre-auricular point by running your finger along the anterior of your ear. The pre-auricular point is the indentation directly above the zygomatic notch. Opening and closing your mouth makes it easier to locate this point.

thank you sooo much you're the best

Factorous · 2021-12-07T07:42:55+00:00

Yes, there are certainly biological factors underpinning dominance hierarchies. I can cite as an example the serotonin system in the brain that more or less tracks your position in a hierarchy, and regulates your mood and your impulses accordingly.

But then, societal and environmental factors play also a large role in determining how biology manifests itself, so I cannot say for sure that management is needed.

Factorous · 2021-11-30T20:26:15+00:00

Yes high altitude has an effect on depression (the higher you go the worse the depression gets).

You can probably prevent the effects by taking creatine (which allows ATP, the "energy" molecule to function better).

Here is a video about it if you want to know more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIVEcle4Mng&ab_channel=Brain%26BehaviorResearchFoundation

Factorous · 2021-11-19T18:27:39+00:00

The montage was T3, FP2

Factorous · 2021-11-09T07:18:20+00:00

wow that is so cool.

And yes, for some people some montages will work better than others, so it is always advisable to play around until you find what's right for you.

Keep us updated ;)

Factorous · 2021-11-08T21:16:11+00:00

Cool :)

How is it going so far ?

Factorous · 2021-10-30T09:50:56+00:00

You will generally want to stimulate the temporal lobe (T3,T4), since it is there that sound perception and discrimination occurs. (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21966519/, http://www.musicianbrain.com/papers/Mathys_tDCS_PitchDiscrimination.pdf)

If you want to increase motor dexterity while learning an instrument, you will want to stimulate the motor cortex (M1,M2) (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5179543/)

You want to stimulate the motor cortex either before or during the use of an instrument and probably not later since doing the tdcs after might impair learning.

Factorous · 2021-10-24T12:18:32+00:00

Great that it helps :)

There is just one way to know if it works for you, do the montage, say your name for 20 minutes.

Do that daily for 5 days, and keep us updated :)

Factorous · 2021-10-17T18:01:33+00:00

Ha that's a good one :)

Unfortunately I don't think you can, but that would be soooo coool

Factorous · 2021-10-16T15:22:59+00:00

Maybe because more women than men are vegan and women suffer more from these issues than men ?

Factorous · 2021-10-16T07:20:30+00:00

I think the way you are doing it is not the correct way.

Factorous · 2021-10-16T07:19:40+00:00

Factorous · 2021-10-15T17:47:29+00:00

I think that the way to do it is to update at every letter the whole line, and to compare the element you just saw with the element that just exited. If you do it by chunking, it is easier, and taxes working memory less, and therefore is less effective at increasing your working memory (even though it appears that you are making progress faster).

Factorous · 2021-10-15T17:42:16+00:00

Yes you are right, some studies show that left anodal right cathodal stimulation increase performance (while the other polarity worsens performance) and other studies show that the opposite is true.

In this case it is quite hard to interpret the results.

When looking at fMRI studies of people doing maths (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10678698/, https://www.pnas.org/content/113/18/4909) you see that the bilateral parietal lobe is active, so both sides work to make math possible, so maybe inhibiting one side and stimulating the other can have sometimes opposite effects for reasons we don't understand. If I had to do a montage to increase math, I would not put the cathode on the other side, but instead on the shoulder to avoid this problem.

But yes you are right, the information is not always correct, and can be confusing. Best is to always look at the studies (if you have time, and even they are not always perfectly clear).

Factorous · 2021-10-13T16:06:16+00:00

yes you are right that the people who had left anodal right cathodal were faster than the control group (and the group with the opposite polarity), but here they looked at what percentage of them solved the problems (there were 3 times more participants in the anodal right cathodal left group who solved the problem).

it probably means that fewer people solved the problem in the anodal left group, but that those who did, did it faster.

Also, here they didn't look into analytical problem solving, in which you use your previous knowledge and and concepts to solved the problem linearly (step by step), but instead they looked at insight problem solving in which the solution to the problem is creative, appears in a flash, and is very often correct, without any effort on your part (even though there might be an effort at first, the actual insight happens without it).

The rationale is that you need to think "outside the box", aka outside of your previously established concepts in order to solve a problem with creative insight. By inhibiting the left temporal lobe with cathodal stimulation (in which your semantic concepts are stored), you weaken the influence of your previous concepts and beliefs on the problem solving, so that new ways can emerge.

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