{"id":75756,"date":"2018-02-03T23:42:46","date_gmt":"2018-02-04T07:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/tickling-the-brain-with-electrical-stimulation-improves-memory-study-shows"},"modified":"2018-02-03T23:42:46","modified_gmt":"2018-02-04T07:42:46","slug":"tickling-the-brain-with-electrical-stimulation-improves-memory-study-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/tickling-the-brain-with-electrical-stimulation-improves-memory-study-shows","title":{"rendered":"Tickling the brain with electrical stimulation improves memory, study shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tickling-the-brain-with-electrical-stimulation-improves-memory-study-shows.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tickling the brain with low-intensity electrical stimulation in a specific area can improve verbal short-term memory. Mayo Clinic researchers report their findings in <i>Brain<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers found word recall was enhanced with stimulation of the brain\u2019s lateral temporal cortex, the regions on the sides of the head by the temples and ears. Patients recalled more words from a previously viewed list when low-amplitude <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/electrical+stimulation\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electrical stimulation<\/a> was delivered to the brain. One patient reported that it was easier to picture the words in his mind for remembering.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe most exciting finding of this research is that our <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/memory\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">memory<\/a> for language information can be improved by directly stimulating this underexplored brain area,\u201d says Michal Kucewicz, Ph.D., a Mayo Clinic researcher in the Department of Neurology and co-first author. Dr. Kucewicz compares the stimulation to \u201ctickling\u201d the brain.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2018-01-brain-electrical-memory.html\">https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2018&#45;01-brain-electrical-memory.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tickling the brain with low-intensity electrical stimulation in a specific area can improve verbal short-term memory. Mayo Clinic researchers report their findings in Brain. The researchers found word recall was enhanced with stimulation of the brain\u2019s lateral temporal cortex, the regions on the sides of the head by the temples and ears. Patients recalled more [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75756","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}