{"id":11475,"date":"2014-06-02T11:04:29","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T18:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=11475"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:07:16","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:07:16","slug":"pentagon-considers-using-electricity-to-stimulate-troops-brains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/pentagon-considers-using-electricity-to-stimulate-troops-brains","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon considers using electricity to stimulate troops\u2019 brains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Globe Staff \u2014 The Boston Globe<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<h1>Keeping your attention<\/h1>\n<p>A growing body of research suggests noninvasive brain stimulation, such as transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), may improve specific cognitive skills in healthy subjects. Put another way, a small intermittent shock to your brain might keep your attention from eroding throughout the day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/news\/nation\/2014\/02\/18\/air-force-stimulates-brain-waves-improve-performance-drone-operators\/V8ZG5DEYze4lCoGlloq14H\/igraphic.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Globe Staff \u2014 The Boston Globe Keeping your attention A growing body of research suggests noninvasive brain stimulation, such as transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), may improve specific cognitive skills in healthy subjects. Put another way, a small intermittent shock to your brain might keep your attention from eroding throughout the day. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11475"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64969,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11475\/revisions\/64969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}