Could the Right Lights & Noise Treat Alzheimer’s Disease?
Could light and noise treatments effectively treat Alzheimer’s disease? This neuroscientist thinks so.
The quest for ways to prevent and treat #Alzheimer’s disease has led scientists to explore a wide variety of techniques. One that has been especially interesting is the use of flickering lights, which has been shown to reduce levels of #amyloid-beta plaque in the brains of mice.
Is this finding, as well as those using pink noise (a mixture of high and low frequencies that is more natural and balanced than white noise), a door to a whole new way to treat Alzheimer’s disease and other neurological conditions?
Li-Huei Tsai, a neuroscientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is one of a growing number of #scientists who believe it is. She and her colleagues noted that exposure to a strobe light tuned to 40 hertz has cleared amyloid-beta from the brain. This approach is an example of how brainwave manipulation may be a new way to delay, treat, or even reverse neurological disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease and perhaps also treat insomnia, schizophrenia, and premenstrual dysphoric disorder.
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