For Alzheimer’s Disease:
The device is a helmet containing a wide range of about 700 LED lights which focus infrared light towards the brain. The low level light can penetrate the skull and is thought to encourage brain cell repair by stimulating the growth of all cell types. Researchers also believe that the apparatus has the potential of not only impeding the progression of the disease, but at least partially reversing the symptoms of dementia such as memory loss and anxiety when worn for 10 minutes daily for a period of only 4 weeks.
The technology is based on a study being conducted at the University of Sunderland that exposed middle-aged mice to infrared light for six minutes a day for the next 10 days. The treatment significantly increased the performance of the mice in a three-dimensional maze.
In a similar research, it has been discovered that about 90% of humans with dementia show improvement when treated with infrared lasers.
