{"id":89439,"date":"2019-04-11T10:22:26","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T17:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/zapping-elderly-peoples-brains-supercharges-their-working-memory"},"modified":"2019-04-11T10:22:26","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T17:22:26","slug":"zapping-elderly-peoples-brains-supercharges-their-working-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/zapping-elderly-peoples-brains-supercharges-their-working-memory","title":{"rendered":"Zapping Elderly People\u2019s Brains Supercharges Their Working Memory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/zapping-elderly-peoples-brains-supercharges-their-working-memory2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stimulating the brains of elderly people with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/research\/articles\/electrostimulation-can-improve-working-memory\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">electrical currents<\/a> allowed them to perform just as well on a memory test as people in their 20s \u2014 a sign that researchers may have found a noninvasive way to turn back the hands of time when it comes to human memory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s opening up a whole new avenue of potential research and treatment options,\u201d researcher Rob Reinhart said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/research\/articles\/electrostimulation-can-improve-working-memory\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">press release<\/a> regarding the study, \u201cand we\u2019re super excited about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/zapping-brains-elderly-working-memory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stimulating the brains of elderly people with electrical currents allowed them to perform just as well on a memory test as people in their 20s \u2014 a sign that researchers may have found a noninvasive way to turn back the hands of time when it comes to human memory. \u201cIt\u2019s opening up a whole new [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89439","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}