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The effects turn out to be pretty complicated because other ongoing brain activity shapes the stimulation effect (and vice versa). Sometimes, the same stimulation can even produce totally opposite effects.

Elsewhere in the thread, I linked to an article we wrote about this and other challenges for doing (useful) brain stimulation.



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