article_snippet.sent: Unleashing your inner Shakespeare could be just a few jolts of electricity away.
article_snippet.sent: Researchers in North Carolina claim that zapping the brain with a mild electric current can boost creativity by nearly eight per cent.
article_snippet.sent: Researchers in North Carolina claim that zapping the brain with a mild electric current can boost creativity by nearly eight per cent .
article_snippet.sent: Flavio Frohlich, an assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of North Carolina said: 'If Flavio Frohlich, an assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of North Carolina could enhance these brain activity patterns, then Flavio Frohlich, an assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of North Carolina could potentially help many people.'
article_snippet.sent: Enhancing these electric oscillations may help treat people with depression, scientists claim .
article_snippet.sent: An experimental technique used to boost brain performance with electrical pulses can actually cause people to perform less well in some tasks, scientists have found.
article_snippet.sent: The technology, known as transcranial direct current stimulation, is already being marketed in commercial products as a way of helping computer game players and athletes improve computer game players and athletes focus.
article_snippet.sent: However, new research from the University of Oxford suggests that the benefits of this technique, which stimulates activity in the brain with an electrical current, may be limited by personality as it appears to only be helpful to people who are stressed about performing a task.
article_snippet.sent: people who are stressed about performing a task found that while electrical stimulation helped those who lacked confidence or were anxious about performing a series of sums, it caused those who did not fear mathematics to decline.
article_snippet.sent: A follow up study that examined how volunteers fared at spotting which way an arrow was pointing on a screen when confronted with distracting information showed that all those who received stimulation performed more poorly.
article_snippet.sent: Several participants showed incredible improvements in creativity.
highlights_snippet.sent: Team are now hoping to use the technique to treat depressed people .