Air Force scientist says service exploring transcranial direct current stimulation (Updated)

By Leigh Giangreco / June 20, 2016 at 8:00 AM
(Editor's note: This story has been updated to provide clarification from the Air Force that tDCS shows promise, particularly in enhancing learning and attention. These results have been repeated multiple times and appear very robust. Further, according to the service, the technology is safe based on several studies conducted at AFRL and by external collaborators, and no negative impacts of tDCS have been demonstrated. What is needed now for tDCS is more testing under operational-like tasks and environments.) Transcranial...

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