Tests conducted at MIT treated diseased mice with light therapy, inducing gamma oscillations at 40 hertz for one hour, beta-amyloid levels dropped by 50%, the only drawback being that beta-amyloids fully recovered to previous levels within 24 hours of treatment. The light therapy also removes plaque and mutated tau proteins. This gamma oscillation also improves the brains overall ability to get rid of mutated or faulty proteins.
Beta-amyloid plaques
Overall I believe this finding is quite fascinating, and could possibly be a big breakthrough in science and the medical field. It is clearly stated that this study has only been done on mice, but everyone including myself has hopes the effect of light therapy will translate to human beings.
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Alzheimer's is such a sad and horrible disease,this is a very important experiment. I hope they can find a treatment that completely helps patients with this disease diagnosis.
ReplyDeleteIt is amazing that a certain wavelength of light can help with the Alzheimer's let alone the brain. It will be cool to see if thise trail is every in the clinical stage. It would be nice if this insight could help cure or ease Alzheimer's
ReplyDeleteThis new information can be of great use to people! Perhaps more research into light therapy could be beneficial for human Alzheimer treatment.
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