Low voltage brain stimulation can double mental performance

I can imagine a future underground college trend is going to be "volting" where people buy/build these little devices so they can study all night on demand at peak performance.

Then suddenly it will be made illegal and there will be a "war on volting".

There was something recently about cellphones operating close to the brain raising the utilization of glucose in the brain. ie, raising activity.

I wondered if strapping an iPhone to your forehead would give you a small ritalin-like boost in your frontal lobes.

Transcranial direct current stimulation - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcranial_direct_current_sti...

Wow, this is almost exactly like the "Spider" in Kevil Guillefoile's "The Thousand" novel!

I imagine high voltage stimulation of other areas would increase performance too.

Its funny to find this article published in nature.com. :)

Reminds me of the wireheaders in William Gibson's novels.

I wonder if this induces neuronal aging as well.