euphoria-inducing opiods via transcranial direct current stimulation

[OneToThirtySix]

E-stimming for your brain?! Why are they only just now trying this?!

[Braintree]

Gettin' high on your own supply.

[YEK]

magnets\> how do tthey werk/?

[Guest isaki]

I hope I'm not the only one that wants to try this

[tokn]

Gettin' high on your own supply.

 

and +1 for that:

 

Find a way to stimulate the 5-ht2a receptor and you'll have me intrigued.

[Guest the anonymous forumite]

Really sounds like a disaster waiting to happen. Scientists tried stimulating dopamine release with an electrode on rats, and the rat could just have a dopamine rush on demand, by pressing a little button. The rat would then keep on pressing it, until he depleted completely his dopamine and was found lying down, with absolutely no motivation to do anything, even eating.

 

Can one deplete its natural opioids ?

[TwiddleBot]

The neatest stuff I've read on transcranial magnetic stimulation relates to understanding psychopathy. A while back I read an experience of one guy who for 15 minutes had areas of his brain targeted that are associated with psychopathy, and when he described his experience after, it sounded to me like being on a lot of stimulants and feeling great while just not giving a fuck. Related study:

 

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/surprise-psychopaths-have-a-talent-for-recognizing-emotions/article4704549/

 

It's pretty philip k dick ('do androids dream') to trigger dopamine release with magnets.. although honestly, people find plenty of ways of doing that everyday without magnets. (Some psychoactives do the job quite well, some, exceedingly well)

[Adieu]

Like with everything the key to success is self-discipline and control.

[Adieu]

I've decided to make one of these. I'll let you know if I become smarter.

[Guest viscosity]

So apparently there are consumer-level devices for this now.

http://www.foc.us/

 

something similar, said to be modeled after the "God Helmet"

http://www.shaktitechnology.com/

 

 

Would definitely want to try the latter. Wondering how well it actually works...

[MisterE]

could one of these make my penis smarter? or stronger?

 

not that it needs either..

[Guest viscosity]

Persinger, who designed the original God Helmet also collaborated on a 64-coil prototype. OOBE in under 6 minutes...

 

http://www.prlog.org/11844110-god-helmet-inventor-induces-out-of-body-experience-in-under-six-minutes-using-quiet-magnetic-fields.html

 

http://www.neuroquantology.com/index.php/journal/article/viewFile/302/347

[Plarkreluke Banloboh]

Interesting podcast on this.

 

http://youtu.be/Hp0G4aeaG9w

 

Learn a new language faster than ever! Leave doubt in the dust! Be a better sniper! Could you do all that and more with just a zap to the noggin? Maybe.

 

Sally Adee, an editor at New Scientist, was at a conference for DARPA - The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency - when she heard about a way to speed up learning with something called trans-cranial direct current stimulation (tDCS). A couple years later, Sally found herself weilding an M4 assualt rifle, picking off enemy combatants with a battery wired to her temple. Of course, it was a simulation, but Sally's sniper skills made producer Soren Wheeler wonder what we should think of the world of brain stimulation.

 

In the last couple years, tDCS has been all over the news. Researchers claim that juicing the brain with just 2 milliamps (think 9-volt battery) can help with everything from learning languages, to quitting smoking, to overcoming depression. We bring Michael Weisend, neuroscientist at Wright State Research Institute, into the studio to tell us how it works (Bonus: you get to hear Jad get his brain zapped). Peter Reiner and Nick Fitz of the University of British Columbia help us think through the consequences of a world where anyone with 20 dollars and access to Radioshack can make their own brain zapper. And finally, Sally tells us about the unexpected after-effects of a day of super-charged sniper training and makes us wonder about world where you can order up a state of mind.

[MisterE]

seems to me like itd be just as bad as getting hooked on heroin, minus the shady drug dealers, dangerous encounters with people, needles messing up your body, and disease transmissions. but i think its a complete myth being perpetuated by a certain spectrum of society that those are the only things wrong with doing doing shit like heroin. and this is going to prove how utterly false that notion is once and for all.