The US military is considering "alarm clock" with electric shock instead of caffeine

ByWhurley

Along with the advancement of technology, some of the work of military personnel is getting very monotonous. For example, if you take a job that continues to monitor images from a drones reconnaissance aircraft in the US military, you will sit at the chair and continue to see similar images for a long time, so often it will be a fight against drowsiness . To support soldiers engaged in such monotonous work, the Department of Defense at the Department of Defense is more effective than caffeineAn alarm clockIt seems that we are developing a method.

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The Army Might Replace Soldiers' Caffeine With Electric Shock Therapy
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In modern times, there are also soldiers who have to perform extremely monotonous work such as continuing to monitor images from drones reconnaissance aircraft for a long time, continuing to look through other monitoring information and so on. For those who work in such business, it is no longer powerful enough for caffeine like coffee to keep watching cautiously. Therefore, the Department of Defense of the United States seems to be studying a new wake-up method to extend soldier's attention and improve reaction time. And that way is "to stimulate the brain by shedding low level current".

ByMurray Barnes

The story is like a scene of science fiction movies, but looking for an effective way to wake up than coffee or nutritional drinks, the US military has decided to use therapy developed to treat brain diseases as a declining judgment or drowsiness It is said to be able to apply it to the method of "applying low level current to stimulate the brain".

And still in the laboratory at the Light Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, the experiment is being conducted while stimulating the brain for dozens of subjects. A biomedical engineer in charge of this project says, "We discovered that stimulated people demonstrate consistent performance."

ByWoody Thrower

The staff in charge of the project seemed to want to ascertain whether this method of "stimulating the brain regularly with electricity" is safe, but there are few things that can be called side effects in this new wake-up method , It seems that the skin of the part to which the electrode was attached was rashed, or the symptom of a mild headache appeared.

In the test, it seems that 1 mA current flowed for 10 minutes, which also proved that cognitive ability and reaction time improved. It seems that we also found that these performance improvements will be reduced in about 20 minutes. However, according to the researchers, "the method of alarming current flowing" is far more effective than taking caffeine and has few side effects. It seems that William Raybon Sergeant Sergeant William Raybon who actually participated in this experiment felt that he was "refreshed" despite lack of sleep at the time of the experiment.

ByUK Ministry of Defense

Speaking of ect. Shock therapy, serious side effects such as often causing loss of memory and damaging bones have attracted attention. However, it is said that the electric current flowing at the time of treatment is carefully controlled now. And indeed some things in ect. Shock therapy are a valuable way to treat a wide variety of psychiatric disordersNational Institute of Mental Health(NIMH) andAmerican Psychiatric Association, And the US Public Health Bureau Secretary and others. However, research on healthy subjects is also a field that is currently limited.

ByGenericprofilename

At the moment, researchers do not seem to be planning to offer this equipment besides the army.