There has always been a lot of interest in accelerating brain function with the use of drugs and chemicals but I'm not aware of anything yet that stimulates the hippocampus to store long term memory.
Editors Contribution(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: alternating current. Is a type of electric current that changes direction periodically during the cycle. Alternating current is a type of electric current used in most household electricity systems in the US and throughout Europe.
Also see current, voltage, and direct current. In electricity, alternating current (AC) occurs when charge carriers in a conductor or semiconductor periodically reverse their direction of movement. Household utility current in most countries is AC with a frequency of 60 hertz (60 complete cycles per second), although in some countries it is 50 Hz. The radio-frequency (RF) current in antennas and transmission lines is another example of AC. An AC waveform can be sinusoidal, square, or sawtooth-shaped. Some AC waveforms are irregular or complicated. An example of sine-wave AC is common household utility current (in the ideal case).