Travel sickness study: Brain zaps 'may ease symptoms'

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Using electricity to stimulate parts of the brain may ease the symptoms of motion sickness, scientists have said.

Chunder chair

Dr Qadeer Arshad, from the movement and balance group at Imperial, said people no longer had motion sickness if their inner ear was damaged.

So the team used "transcranial direct current stimulation" to try to manipulate the part of the brain that interprets messages coming from those balance organs in the ear while people were made to feel nauseous.

Twenty volunteers were placed in a "chunder chair" which is like a twisted fairground ride that spins someone round at an angle.

 

Source:http://www.bbc.com/news/health-34145713