Dr. Jeffrey Gladden explains how transcranial direct current stimulation uses weak electrical currents to adjust activity in specific brain regions. The technique could help treat anxiety, depression, ADHD, and insomnia by targeting overactive or underactive neural circuits, though more research is needed on safety and dosing.
So what we, what we know generally and what we believe is happening is at least in part based on research on transcranial direct current stimulation. There is a body of work in this area and you can essentially use electrical currents to preferentially increase or decrease brain activity in certain areas of the brain. And that is interesting because there's whatever the situation might be, whether it's anxiety and depression, ADHD, whether it's difficulty sleeping, there often is, there often are brain areas, some that are hyperactive and some that are hypo or underactive. So being able to have, being able to change the polarity of the current or the electrode placement to, to be able to up or downregulate certain areas is a very interesting, and again, you know, to, to your question, that is certainly one of the things that I'm interested in. One of the ways that I see this going in the years ahead, of course, there's research to be done for the safety and efficacy and dialing and protocol. Yeah.
