{"id":243156,"date":"2026-08-25T01:32:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T06:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/evidence-that-gamma-rhythm-stimulation-can-treat-neurological-disorders-is-emerging"},"modified":"2026-08-25T01:32:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T06:32:54","slug":"evidence-that-gamma-rhythm-stimulation-can-treat-neurological-disorders-is-emerging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/evidence-that-gamma-rhythm-stimulation-can-treat-neurological-disorders-is-emerging","title":{"rendered":"Evidence that gamma rhythm stimulation can treat neurological disorders is emerging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/evidence-that-gamma-rhythm-stimulation-can-treat-neurological-disorders-is-emerging.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A surprising MIT <a href=\"https:\/\/picower.mit.edu\/news\/unique-visual-stimulation-may-be-new-treatment-alzheimers\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a> published in <em>Nature<\/em> at the end of 2016 helped to spur interest in the possibility that light flickering at the frequency of a particular gamma-band brain rhythm could produce meaningful therapeutic effects for people with Alzheimer\u2019s disease. In a new <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/joim.13755\" target=\"_blank\">review paper in the <em>Journal of Internal Medicine<\/em><\/a>, the lab that led those studies takes stock of what a growing number of scientists worldwide have been finding out since then in dozens of clinical and lab benchtop studies.<\/p>\n<p>Brain rhythms (also called brain \u201cwaves\u201d or \u201coscillations\u201d) arise from the synchronized network activity of brain cells and circuits as they coordinate to enable brain functions such as perception or cognition. Lower-range gamma-frequency rhythms, those around 40 cycles a second, or hertz (Hz), are particularly important for memory processes, and MIT\u2019s research has shown that they are also associated with specific changes at the cellular and molecular level. The 2016 study and many others since then have produced evidence, initially in animals and more recently in humans, that various noninvasive means of enhancing the power and synchrony of 40Hz gamma rhythms helps to reduce Alzheimer\u2019s pathology and its consequences.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat started in 2016 with optogenetic and visual stimulation in mice has expanded to a multitude of stimulation paradigms, a wide range of human clinical studies with promising results, and is narrowing in on the mechanisms underlying this phenomenon,\u201d write the authors including <a href=\"https:\/\/picower.mit.edu\/node\/2\">Li-Huei Tsai<\/a>, Picower Professor in The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory and the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A surprising MIT study published in Nature at the end of 2016 helped to spur interest in the possibility that light flickering at the frequency of a particular gamma-band brain rhythm could produce meaningful therapeutic effects for people with Alzheimer\u2019s disease. In a new review paper in the Journal of Internal Medicine, the lab that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243156","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}