New Research: A Light at the End of the Alzheimer's Tunnel?
The Brian Lehrer Show | Dec 8, 2016
Molly Webster, producer and reporter at WNYC's Radiolab, and Dr. Li-Huei Tsai, picower professor of neuroscience, director of MIT’s Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, and senior author of the study in Nature, "Gamma frequency entrainment attenuates amyloid load and modifies microglia", discuss Dr. Li-Heui's new research on the use of flashing LED lights to ward off Alzheimer's in mice.
Dr. Li-Huei Tsai: If a sense is directed at you with a rhythm, then your neurons can be trained to fire at a similar frequency.
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A caller wonders about the ethical concerns of doing research on Alzheimer's patients, some of whom may not fully understand consent
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