Without a doubt, science advances by leaps and bounds, especially in the last decade. Proof of what I say you have it in how practically every day they surprise us with interesting news that, until relatively recently, were literally unthinkable. This time I want to tell you about a new project in which he has achieved increase a subject's learning speed by no less than 40%.
How could it be otherwise, this type of project is once again financed by DARPA So not only will they reach the market much later than would be interesting, but before doing so, it will become available for many years to the United States military forces with all that this can mean both for society and at the level. warlike.
Learn up to 40% faster thanks to this DARPA method
The idea with this project, as it has been commented by those responsible for its development, is based on the use of the well-known non-invasive direct current transcranial stimulation system. Although the method used in the project may have a rather striking name, the truth is that we are talking about a technique that is currently being used as a treatment for certain cognitive and behavioral problems and even problems in the motor system of certain people who have suffered some type of brain damage.
As you can see, the basis of this whole project doesn't really use any kind of novel system but rather the real novelty of the project lies in the use of it. To apply this technique, the researchers use two surface electrodes that are placed over the scalp of the patient who is going to undergo treatment. Once the entire project has started, these surface electrodes begin to emit a low-amplitude direct electrical current on a very specific area of the brain. We talk about a current between 0,5 and 2 mA.
During the first tests carried out on this technology, it has been concluded that it is a success
As we have already commented in previous lines, the truth is that this technique is already used in other fields of medicine although, at this time and according to has been verified by numerous institutions and laboratories in the United States and Canada in a series of tests carried out on monkeysThe truth is that the use of it, apparently, substantially increases the ability of these apes to perform a series of tasks in a much faster way.
As he has commented in his last statements about this project Praveen pilly, Principal Investigator and Project Manager:
In this experiment we targeted the prefrontal cortex with individualized non-invasive stimulation setups. That's the region that controls many executive functions, including decision-making, cognitive control, and contextual memory retrieval. It is connected to almost every other cortical area in the brain, and stimulating it has widespread effects.
There are still between 5 and 10 years for the use of this technology to be generalized
Once the tests were carried out on monkeys, the scientists began to perform a series of tests in which they had to participate. Specifically, they had to do with tests based on the associative learning that, if completed satisfactorily, it was a reward for the animal. The final result of the same was very clear since the apes treated with this type of brain stimulator were much superior to those of the control group, they only needed 12 trials to get the reward, while the control group needed 21 trials.
Although tests have already been carried out and the rest of the entire project with more than interesting results, the truth is that at the moment the research is in a very early stage of development, so the researchers who are in charge of herself do not hesitate in her assertion that there is still a lot of work to do, more or less between five and ten years, so that the use of this new technology can be generalized.