S1E2: The Body Electric

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Society & Culture, Technology, History

4.6 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2018

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

We’ve used electricity to treat our brains for thousands of years, from placing electric fish on our heads to cure migraines to using electroconvulsive therapy to alleviate depression. But over time, our focus has shifted from restoring health to augmenting our abilities. Should we be wearing battery-powered caps to improve our concentration, or implanting electricity-emitting devices to expand our thinking capacity? Guests include: Brian Johnson, CEO of Kernel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.3	The red is the positive terminal, and I'm going to put that over your left forehead,
0:34.9	and the black is the negative terminal, and I'm going to put that over your
0:38.3	right forehead.
0:39.3	And the electricity is going to run between them through my head, from the positive to the negative.
0:45.3	This is me in the laboratory of Marone Bixen.
0:47.3	He's a professor of biomedical engineering at the City College of New York, and he's attaching
0:52.3	electrodes to my forehead.
0:53.3	Professor Bixen's about to run a couple millimets of electrical current through my skull.
0:58.5	Your head is the circuit, because you think about it, right, that the electricity will arrive
1:03.6	at one sponge.
1:05.4	And after that, it's just your head.
1:06.8	So it has nowhere to go.
1:07.8	It has to cross into your head, flow through your head, and then you have a worried look on your face.
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