Mild Electric Brain Stimulation Helps Learn From Mistakes, Or Not, Vanderbilt University Study

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Running an electric current through the brains of patients brings back bad memories of electroshock therapy from the 1950’s. Nurse Ratched perhaps was most responsible for an instinctual rejection of electroshock therapy, and has done quite a bit to halt much of the related research. Researchers at Vanderbilt University have known that within the medial-frontal cortex exists a component of the brain that creates an electric signal whenever the owner of the brain realizes that he or she made a mistake.

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