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You may have experienced total fatigue and blamed whatever the cause—poor sleep, a busy day at work—as the reason you felt your energy was "zapped." The term is figurative. However, some people feel ...

Brain zaps have no cure, but they usually resolve over time. Once a person’s body has adjusted to the change in antidepressant dosage, brain zaps and some other side effects may decrease. This article ...

The brain is constantly pulsing with electricity. Rapid electrical bursts, passed from neuron to neuron, drive our thoughts, behaviors, and perceptions of the world. Networks of neurons form circuits ...

Placebos can make us feel better. Mild electric zaps to the brain can make that effect even stronger, scientists report online May 3 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The finding ...

Research has found that non-invasively applying a mild electrical current to the brain twice a day for six weeks improved cognitive functioning and plasticity, the ability of the brain to ‘rewire’ ...

In the future brain, implants are going to do a million-and-one things, and one of them will be relieving serve, long-term depression that would act as a "neural pacemaker". Yeah, a pacemaker -- like ...