A jolt of electricity could boost your math skill

If you’re one of the many people, yours truly included, who always found math class a bit on the difficult side then maybe all you needed was a jolt of electricity. Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) has been used as a psychiatric treatment since the 1930s and is still used today, most commonly as a treatment for severe depression. Now researchers are reporting that applying an electrical current to the brain could enhance a person’s mathematical performance for up to six months without impacting their other cognitive functions.
The results showed that the TDSC treatment improved the participants’ ability to learn the new numbers, with the improvements lasting six months after the treatment.
Now they’ve shown that the TDSC treatment can improve the number processing abilities of people with normal mathematical ability, the researchers plan to test it on people with severe numerical disabilities.