Stimulating a targeted area of the brain with small doses of weak electricity while you sleep may enhance your ability to remember what you learned the night before, new research finds.
The new procedure is called transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS).
“We work with the brain, that’s really unique about what we do. We listen in to brain activity and can boost what the brain already wants to do,” said the study’s senior author, Flavio Frohlich. He’s an assistant professor of psychiatry at the Neuroscience Center at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.
