Bodhgaya t1_iz9s396 wrote on December 7, 2022 at 3:10 PM

Reply to comment by Best-Responsibility9 in Researchers claim a human trial with 90 people has shown a simple laser therapy improves short-term memory by 25%. The treatment, called transcranial photobiomodulation (tPBM), has had claims in previous studies to also improve reaction times, accuracy and attention by lughnasadh

/u/Best-Responsibility9, I've recently begun delving into tDCS and tACS, and also very interested in the Vielight but I can't justify the money for that yet. I'm making an effort to understand how these three approaches compare to what's been found at Stanford and led to developing the SAINT protocol. Considering that Dr. Nolan Williams team found that most durable effect comes from short, repeated (successively over a 3-day period) TMS on the left DLPFC, specifically targeting the anterior cingulate. It would seem to a layperson that tDCS is the sledgehammer and r-tMS is the scalpel. Of the home-use options, none of the current tech can target that spot other than TMS, yet still seem to be effective. My question is do you think tDCS/tACS is as effective as tPBM? Would you guess it's 50% as effective? 95% as effective?