Electric Current to Brain Boosts Memory
From: Northwestern University - 08/28/2014
By: Matra Paul

Discovery may help treat memory disorders resulting from stroke, Alzheimer's,
and brain injury

Stimulating a particular region in the brain via non-invasive delivery of
electrical current using magnetic pulses, called Transcranial Magnetic
Stimulation, improves memory, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study.

The discovery opens a new field of possibilities for treating memory
impairments caused by conditions such as stroke, early-stage Alzheimer’s
disease, traumatic brain injury, cardiac arrest, and the memory problems that
occur in healthy aging.

Read the entire article and view a video (2:35) at:
http://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2014/08/electric-current-to-brain-boosts-memory.html

Links:
Joel Voss
http://fsmweb.northwestern.edu/faculty/FacultyProfile.cfm?xid=24019

Targeted enhancement of cortical-hippocampal brain networks and associative
  memory 
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/345/6200/1054