{"id":24059,"date":"2016-03-28T18:47:30","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T01:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/experts-wary-of-electrical-brain-stimulation-at-home"},"modified":"2017-04-24T21:37:54","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T04:37:54","slug":"experts-wary-of-electrical-brain-stimulation-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/experts-wary-of-electrical-brain-stimulation-at-home","title":{"rendered":"Experts wary of electrical brain stimulation at home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vancouversun.com\/cms\/binary\/11811957.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hmmm;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Researchers are testing mild electrical stimulation to improve brain function and mental health, but warn do-it-yourselfers to be wary of treating themselves with models available online.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Fidel Vila-Rodriguez, director of the <a href=\"http:\/\/ninet.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Non-Invasive Neurostimulation Therapies (NINET)<\/a> Lab at the University of B.C., is starting to lend devices for home use to people with Parkinson\u2019s disease and depression that will deliver a weak electrical current through electrodes placed on their temples.<\/p>\n<p>The machines in his experiments can\u2019t be adjusted above two milliamps \u2014 similar to the power created by two AA batteries. In contrast, some unregulated brain stimulators sold online can deliver about 10 times that amount of current, something he calls \u201cworrisome.\u201d It is an amount of electricity still small enough that users might not notice an immediate effect \u2014 or danger.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vancouversun.com\/health\/Experts+wary+electrical+brain+stimulation+home\/11811955\/story.html\">http:\/\/www.vancouversun.com\/health\/Experts+wary+electrical+b...story.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hmmm; Researchers are testing mild electrical stimulation to improve brain function and mental health, but warn do-it-yourselfers to be wary of treating themselves with models available online. Dr. Fidel Vila-Rodriguez, director of the Non-Invasive Neurostimulation Therapies (NINET) Lab at the University of B.C., is starting to lend devices for home use to people with Parkinson\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24059","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42868,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24059\/revisions\/42868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}