Anthony Lee had just begun trying to hack his brain when his girlfriend caught him at it. He was sitting in the living room of his Alabama home with electrodes attached to his head, fiddling with the device he’d built to send a current through his gray matter, when she walked in. “It was that awkward moment when your family walks in on you while you’re doing science,” he says with a laugh.
Full story here at IEEE Spectrum: he Latest DIY Craze: Brain Hacking
Knowing what I do about brain chemistry its not that hard to imagine a regime of drugs that would provide a significant boost in the short term.
tDCS I call shenanigans.
http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/neuropsychiatry/current-status-transcranial-direct-current-stimulation-treatment-depression/page/0/2
Read up on the practice of self-trapanation...forget about electrodes, those people actually drill holes in their own skulls.
wearymicrobe wrote: Knowing what I do about brain chemistry its not that hard to imagine a regime of drugs that would provide a significant boost in the short term.
Anything that can be done SAFELY for long term boosts? Just wondering out of pure curiosity.
I can imagine this is just like owning a turbocharged car. "Just" a little more boost is perfectly safe, right until that "whacktiy-pop!" noise comes from the engine.
A friend-of-a-friend is the only person I've met who's had electro shock therapy. He's... different...
Trans_Maro wrote: I can imagine this is just like owning a turbocharged car. "Just" a little more boost is perfectly safe, right until that "whacktiy-pop!" noise comes from the engine. A friend-of-a-friend is the only person I've met who's had electro shock therapy. He's... different...
Different...like Ed? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfFRv_1XdDM&feature=kp
Conquest351 wrote:wearymicrobe wrote: Knowing what I do about brain chemistry its not that hard to imagine a regime of drugs that would provide a significant boost in the short term.Anything that can be done SAFELY for long term boosts? Just wondering out of pure curiosity.
More then likely there is someone out there with it worked out. Depends on what you mean long term.
Conquest351 wrote:wearymicrobe wrote: Knowing what I do about brain chemistry its not that hard to imagine a regime of drugs that would provide a significant boost in the short term.Anything that can be done SAFELY for long term boosts? Just wondering out of pure curiosity.
Safely overclocking your brain long term, say more than a month or two,(presumably with amphetamines or something to that effect)? No way would that ever end well. Bright candles burning more quickly and all that.
Three years into college now, I've developed a tolerance to caffeine so high I don't really feel it anymore beyond stopping withdrawal symptoms, and I'll mix up caffeinated lemonade at 400-500mg/L(mountain dew is ~150mg/L), I just use it habitually. I know stronger stuff will lead down the same path even worse, so I just deal with it and stay at "normal".
This thing reminds me of the "droud" from Larry Niven's SF stories.
Look into nootropics, specifically provigil.
Ever see the move "PI?"
NZT!
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