Questions on the brain

Greetings everyone. I have a few questions on the effects of different
possible effects to the brain. First of all- What are the side effets,
both positive or negative, on the brain when exposed to electricity,
ie: slight impulses send to focussed portion of the brain. Any
research done on the topic, particularily the seemingly inactive
portions of the brain, as in the frontal lobe.
Secondly, what are the effects of herbal and/or medicinal medication
targeted specifically for the brain? Any cognitive or increased wave
activity, or noted electrical or blood flow change?
Lastly, what are the possible, if only theoretical, effects of a
combination of these 2, in varying degrees. Any noted research done or
documentation?
i thank you again friends.

 

A recent paper describing effects of low level magnetic fields and
comparing this to previously used much higher level fields and voltages.
Am J Psychiatry. 2004 Jan;161(1):93-8. Low-field magnetic stimulation in
bipolar depression using an MRI-based stimulator.

Dr. Michael Persinger. Many publications on the effects of low level
magnetic fields on the brain, many recently in Perceptual and Motor Skills.
Google can find you some of these. Psyc abstracts is probably where you
want to go to get a view of the bredth of all the work that he and his
lab have done.

Those two sources might get you started on this, they refer to other
experiments they have done on this area.

It doesn't look that difficult to try to reproduce the experiments of
Persinger and others. Fairly cheap arbitrary waveform generators and
modest magnetic coils, some are using reed relay coils, look feasible
to build. Most of the data is there in the open literature. It doesn't
look like anyone is seeing worrysome risks in trying this.

I'll let someone else address herbs. But the Ecstasy results seem
like they might be interesting, if you can manage to figure out who
has an agenda and are certain to find results that will confirm this.

Decades ago I remember reading the first couple of pages of a book
on drug research. The author said that again and again, the first
published research said "you will burst into flames if you take z."
A couple of years go by and someone publishes "if you take z you will
feel terrific and find wonderful things." A couple of years later
"well, you might not burst into flames, but you will certainly catch
fire given the smallest opportunity." And then "well z isn't as great
as we thought, but it is still pretty good." And maybe after a dozen
or more years all this silly political posturing will finally get out
of the way and some of the facts will finally surface. I only wish
I could remember the book or the author that wrote this.