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Brain Stimulation Could Help Doctors Learn to Use Surgery Robots
An experimental subject receives non-invasive brain stimulation while learning to use the da Vinci robotic surgical system.
Credit: Guido Caccianiga et al.
Johns Hopkins University (JHU) researchers found stimulating people's brains with gentle electric currents could boost their ability to learn in virtual environments.
Study participants drove a surgical needle through three small holes, first in a virtual simulation and then in a real scenario, using the da Vinci Research Kit, an open-source research robot.
Participants who received steady electrical currents showed a notable boost in dexterity, compared to those who received such stimulation only at the beginning of the process.
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