Need Some Resilience? A Few Zaps of Electricity Might Help, Stanford University Study

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Fighting spirit, grit, heart: researchers say that they may all be within our reach with just a zap of electricity to a specific spot in the brain.

So far, however, the electrical stimulation is too invasive to transform slackers into marathoners, but the latest research raises fascinating questions about how we might manipulate the brain to spur qualities like resilience— and about the limits of such technology.

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