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> However, it can shift the timing of spikes caused by its “natural” activity”, and thus change those activity patterns.

That's a super cool activity, sounds so simple to manipulate your brain into the 'productive' behavior.




If only!

The effects turn out to be pretty complicated because other ongoing brain activity shapes the stimulation effect (and vice versa). Sometimes, the same stimulation can even produce totally opposite effects.

Elsewhere in the thread, I linked to an article we wrote about this and other challenges for doing (useful) brain stimulation.




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