UNC‘s Flavio Frohlich used low doses of electric current to boost creativity by enhancing alpha wave oscillations. His goal is to to help people with neurological and psychiatric illnesses, as some depression patients have impaired alpha oscillations.
His Cortex paper showed EEG observed alpha wave oscillation enhancement using a 10-Hertz current run through electrodes attached to the scalp.
Frohlich and David Rubinow are using this type of brain stimulation in clinical trials for major depressive disorder and premenstrual dysphoric disorder.
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