Thread: Strong magnet next to your brain - any effect?

If I were to place a super strong magnet next to my head will the magnet affect me/ my memory/ etc ?

there were studies done using a type of magnetic field (transcranial magnetic stimulation) where their head fit into it, (think it was some sort of hat like thing and they sat in a chair) people developped entirely new skills e.g. a sudden ability to draw, but no, normally magnet won't do anything noticeable.

fine: I have subscriptions to these but have to login for the full text, I can give the reference to some but not the weblink, pubmed them (or jorge1907, could be a bit much for you, you should stick to google scholar) if you want proof Im not making them up. Im not bothered to reference them fully.

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/j...TRY=1&SRETRY=0

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science...f84c9b99794acb

Alvaro Pascual-Leone, Vincent Walsh, John Rothwell
Transcranial magnetic stimulation in cognitive neuroscience – virtual lesion, chronometry, and functional connectivity
Current Opinion in Neurobiology
Volume 10, Issue 2, 1 April 2000, Pages 232-237

Transcranial magnetic stimulation and the human brain
M Hallett - Nature, 2000

Thanks robbie - very interesting. You're learning.

Appreciate that!

I've only access to the abstracts. do these guys speculate in text as to the mechanism?

You mean like an MRI? Probably not.