What they are describing is a very different type of way of applying electricity to the brain. Having a direct shock from the hands from them being in the wrong place at the wrong time, is not the same at all, as what they are describing that article. Having an electric shock under non controlled conditions can infact induce problems that are similar to Parkinson's disease and other complications later in life.
Jerry G.
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This morning that's the headline in the MSN page when I signed out of
hotmail.
DC polarization and transcranial magnetic stimulation are discussed.
I got shocked a lot when I was a kid, playing around with the All
American 5-tube radios, etc. Maybe that's why I'm so smart! ;-)
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