Struggling with math? Plug in to improve<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/struggling-maths-plug-improve-162124507.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/dIhHbqvRBVoi_KuDa7z.Rg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-05-16T162124Z_1_CBRE94F19FS00_RTROPTP_2_CUBA.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Students take a year-end math test at the Manuel Bisbe high school in Havana" align="left" title="Students take a year-end math test at the Manuel Bisbe high school in Havana" border="0" /></a>By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - Applying painless but targeted electrical stimulation to parts of the brain that play a role in number manipulation may in future be a way to help people who struggle with math, scientists said on Thursday. Researchers who experimented with a type of brain stimulation called transcranial random noise stimulation (TRNS) found that in less than a week it improved students' performance in both calculation and rote learning of mathematical tasks. ...</p><br clear="all"/>
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