Dr Gordon Dougal, director of Virulite, a medical research company based in County Durham, claims to have found a way to reverse the symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease, a progressive form of presenile dementia. He is working on a prototype cognitive helmet that showers the brain cells with infra-red beams, which is thought to help in re-generating cells and slow the aging effects. If that is true, then we have found the way to turn back the brain’s biological clock and reverse the effects of dementia and memory loss. Earlier some middle-aged mice were exposed to infrared light for six minutes a day for ten days, and they showed improvement in their performance in a three-dimensional maze. Now, medical experts plan to test this technique on human.
According to Dr Dougal:
The implications of this research at Sunderland are enormous - so much so that in the future we could be able to affect and change the rate at which our bodies age. We age because our cells lose the desire to regenerate and repair themselves. This ultimately results in cell death and decline of the organ functions - for the brain resulting in memory decay and deterioration in general intellectual performance.
Presently, the research is in early stages and hopes to bring a ray of new light to around 700,000 Britons suffering with dementia, and with around 500,000 suffering from Alzheimer’s disease.
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