Talk:Transcranial alternating current stimulation

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A fact from Transcranial alternating current stimulation appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 26 November 2009 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that transcranial alternating current stimulation, a method of applying alternating current above the scalp, can entrain brain waves that induce phosphenes and slow reaction times?

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Current Strength[edit]

"The voltage is 5–15 V and peak current is 1.0–1.5 A."

This can't be true. Lethal current is about 100 mA (0.1 A). Also heads resistance is not even nearly low enough to create such high currents with 15 volts. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_shock

--anon 62.134.199.5 (talk) 07:10, 26 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It should be mA instead of A. But while this might be a common current for tACS, it doesn't have to me 1 - 1.5 mA. --2003:51:4B36:AF00:5015:9BD1:FDD9:4A3F (talk) 20:17, 31 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

what purpose and what frequencies[edit]

Why do this (eg research, diagnosis, therapy) ? and what frequencies are used for different purposes ? Transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS). Antal 2013 looks useful. - Rod57 (talk) 02:28, 18 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]