{"id":160902,"date":"2023-03-23T20:33:23","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T01:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/mit-is-testing-light-and-sound-to-combat-alzheimers"},"modified":"2023-03-23T20:33:23","modified_gmt":"2023-03-24T01:33:23","slug":"mit-is-testing-light-and-sound-to-combat-alzheimers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/mit-is-testing-light-and-sound-to-combat-alzheimers","title":{"rendered":"MIT is testing light and sound to combat Alzheimer\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O_p4QWkE2Ls?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Our brains aren\u2019t limited to producing just one type of brain wave at a time, but usually, one type is dominant, and the type it is can often be linked to your level of alertness: delta waves may dominate when you sleep, while gamma waves might dominate when you concentrate intensely.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The idea:<\/strong> Researchers have previously observed that people with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/health\/alzheimers-symptoms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Alzheimer\u2019s<\/a> \u2014 a devastating neurological disease affecting more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/health\/alzheimers-treatment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">6 million people<\/a> in the US alone \u2014 may have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC8710538\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">weaker and less in-sync<\/a> gamma waves than people who don\u2019t have the disease.<\/p>\n<p>In a series of past studies, MIT researchers <a href=\"https:\/\/picower.mit.edu\/discoveries\/40hz-rhythms-fight-alzheimers-cellular-and-molecular-level\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">demonstrated<\/a> a deceptively simple way to increase the power and synchronization of these waves in mouse models of Alzheimer\u2019s: expose the animals to lights flickering and\/or sounds clicking at a frequency of 40 Hz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our brains aren\u2019t limited to producing just one type of brain wave at a time, but usually, one type is dominant, and the type it is can often be linked to your level of alertness: delta waves may dominate when you sleep, while gamma waves might dominate when you concentrate intensely. The idea: Researchers have [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}