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January 29th, 2014 at 1:56 pm  Brain stimulation can improve
mental arithmetic ability   Transcranial Random Noise
Stimulation can improve learning and speed up mental
calculations.  An Oxford University study gave participants just
five days of training with a relatively new form of brain
stimulation: transcranial random noise stimulation.    Some
participants in the study had parts of their brains electrically
stimulated while they were learning calculation drills.
Another group had a ‘sham’ treatment which appeared the same to
participants, but crucially the machine was turned off after
just 30 seconds.  Learning faster  The area targeted by the
brain stimulation was in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex.
Activity in this area has been associated with learning, memory
and executive control.  The results, which are published in the
journal Current Biology, demonstrated that those receiving the
brain stimulation learned more quickly and were faster