An attempt to hack his / her brain with DIY to increase brain performance

A gamer headset that sets the head and stimulates the brain to raise abilityYaHeadband that will guide you to see lucid dreamsThere are several awesome instruments such as "set on the head and let it act on the brain", but in the worldDIYThere are many scary and unknown challengers trying to improve their brain's performance using the original headset you did.

Meet the Internet's DIY brain hackers
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According to a study, it is easier for a person to enter a meditation state when an electric current is applied to the head, a video game becomes better when a neuron is stimulated,Bipolar disorderIt seems to recover from the emotional anxiety state likeTDCS(Transcranial direct current stimulation) is called. Since the beginning of 2000, scientists have pointed out that tDCS improves human learning ability, reduces symptoms of depression, sharp reflexes, suppresses desires such as alcohol, sweet things, tobacco, It is possible to use it for, and I have continued my research.

The device for tDCS is very easy to assemble, it can be completed by inserting the electrode in a sponge wired with several saline solutions by wiring several registers and a current regulator or a battery. Because it can be assembled very easily, many computer enthusiasts and hackers created their own tDCS headset with DIY, and uploaded the effect of giving electrical stimulus to the brain on blogs, YouTube, bulletin boards etc It is.

Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation


Despite frequent journalists warning that "sending electricity to your brain is obviously dangerous" or "you need to be supervised by professionals who can be confirmed as safe" People trying to let the current flow in their brains with the tDCS headset they DIY will not fail. This may be because the sense of expectation that "perhaps you can easily boost your brain", regardless of the danger, may be a big appealTHE KERNELHe wrote.

A typical pattern of a tDCS movie boasts about a tDCS headset made by a young man himself or purchased on the net and shows off the electrode wound on his head, saying "Switch on! It is a decisive moment!" Comment and turn on the headset switch, it will happen when current flowsIntraocular flashTalking with excitement about things. The following movies are also one such typical movie pattern.

I Zapped My Brian With tDCS and LIVED! - YouTube


New York Times ArticlesAccording to the article, "It is very dangerous to repeat the experiment without understanding that the experimental movie using young tDCS headset is dangerous to flow current to the brain is very reckless." Then we are interviewing young people who are challenging reckless experiments and talking about how dangerous the experiments using tDCS equipment made with DIY are.

In this way, some users of tDCS headset repeat reckless experiments, but some people are carrying current to their heads with due consideration of danger. A 61-year-old Alex Mark who lives in Michigan is also one of the tDCS headset users and he said that he is using the tDCS headset to make his symptoms of bipolar disorder and chronic pain even better in any way .

Although it is too reckless to direct electric current from a 9 volt battery directly to the brain, young students who are unfamiliar with tDCS sometimes perform unreasonable experiments close to that. Also, the electrode placement position of the tDCS headset is very important, and if you mistake one step you will cause nausea and dizziness to the user.

In consideration of such dangers, Mr. Mark had DIY his own favorite tDCS headset from a high-quality ion introduction machine. Besides being a headset for games, we are successfully avoiding regulations on safety standards of the US Food and Drug Administration "Foc.There are also instruments such as "If you want to work on experiments using tDCS safely, you need to study peripheral knowledge often.


If the medicine "X" improves the symptom "Y", it is necessary to support that "X" works for "Y" for reasonable reasons in biology. For example, to explain how life forms changed over time, the word "evolution" will be a very coarse explanation, but if you explain firmly how "evolution" will occur, this explanation It will be very nice. In the same way, it is widely known that "tDCS" has an effective effect on "brain", but it is not known exactly how this works and this is a problem That is why.

It is insufficient to explain that "neurons are activated by flowing 1 to 2 milliamps of current flow" which is often used in the description of tDCSsayHe is Greg Miller. He says, "The part that controls functions related to the learning and memory of the brain is complexly related to various parts in the brain and there are individual differences," but most of the tDCS users " We point out that we are repeating the monotonous experiment that a positive electrode is applied to one part and a negative electrode is applied to the other part and a current is made to flow ". And, it is possible to improve complex brain performance with a monotonous current flowing wayPlacebo effectI am commenting that it depends largely on it.

BySteve Jurvetson

Although it is tDCS that still has many unknown parts in this way, THE KERNEL points out that there is also a possibility that this will have a large share. Bipolar disorder is a serious psychosis that treats with mood stabilizers, antipsychotics, antidepressants, etc. However, symptoms of bipolar disorder and drug side effects are intense and treatment is very difficult There is also an aspect of it. Mr. Mark seems to have been impossible to treat with medicine because of allergies to therapeutic drugs, and in bipolar disorder it is often difficult to treat with drugs.

The psychiatrist recommended Mark for such treatment was treatment using tDCS headset. When tDCS headset is used to treat depression, it is the basic pattern that a positive electrode is attached to the upper left of the forehead and a negative electrode is placed above the right eye to flow current. Mr. Mark has continued this therapy daily for over a year, during which he seems to have been reading various literature on tDCS. One day, Mark, who knew that research was being conducted in South Korea to conduct current to the brain using an electrode arrangement pattern called "montage" to treat epilepsy patients, the same way I thought that it might work for myself with bipolar disorder. When Mr. Mark immediately got current using an electrode arrangement pattern called "montage" in his / her brain, it seems that emotional instability symptoms seen in bipolar disorder are not immediately seen.

However, it is very difficult to put the electrodes of the tDCS headset in the correct position of the head, Mark, who has been using the tDCS headset for many years, seems to be due to the slightly strange place putting the electrode in the past, I have also confessed my own way of thinking changed as if I became a brain. Although it seems that this symptom cured after about 6 hours, it is not always possible to return to the original state before the current is flowed the same way, so we used the tDCS headset after knowing such risk It seems necessary to tackle the experiment.

ByIan Ruotsala

Elizabeth A, one of the users who DIY the tDCS headset and uploaded it to YouTube, said for the first time using the tDCS headset "I was a bit sleepy, but I feel better soon "I tell you. Many of the other tDCS headset users also reported similar impressions with Elizabeth A, and in the case of flowing current to the brain with the tDCS headset, although such a strong effect can not be obtained in most cases, It seems that you feel as if you feel somewhat better or have improved cognitive ability.

TDCS at home session flow state - YouTube