Electrical Stimulation Enhances You To Think More Creatively, New Study Says

Researchers from Georgetown University Medical Center discovered that an electrical stimulation can enhance creativity. The researchers applied Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) to accelerate an area of the brain, which is known to be linked with creativity. This is combined with test subjects' verbal cues to think more artistically.

Science Daily reports that the study was led by Adam Green, a professor of psychology at Georgetown, Dr. Peter Turkeltaub of Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) and a team of colleagues. The findings were issued online in Cerebral Cortex.

Professor Green explained that they found out that the individuals who were most able to ramp in activity in a region at the far front of the brain, which is called the frontopolar cortex, were the ones most able to ramp up the creativity of the connections they formed. He further said that since ramping up activity in frontopolar cortex appeared to support a natural boost in creative thinking, they predicted that stimulating activity in this brain region would facilitate this boost, allowing people to reach higher creative heights.

The results of the study show that there is novel evidence that tDCS enrich the sensible expansion of creativity stimulated by cognitive intervention and lengthens the known boundaries of tDCS to analogical reasoning. Turkeltaub, a GUMC cognitive neurologist is hoping that doctors may recuperate creative analogical reasoning through the use of tDCS and cue to aid people with brain disorders.

Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation or tDCS is a type of neurostimulation, which is a therapeutic activation of the part of the nervous system that uses microelectrodes. It applies an even, low current that is delivered to a designated area of the brain through electrodes on the scalp. TDCS is the effective treatment for people who have depression and brain injuries.