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Does anyone know anything about this?
https://neurosciencenews.com/alzheimers-memory-electromagnetic-waves-14920/?fbclid=IwAR2cxG4wAo4OMZV8zhNgKNBnwMt6k3Dx-88svHVWsyJU-f4wPRDdbiiXXxU
The open-label study was a single center, single arm trial in eight patients 63 years of age and older with mild to moderate Alzheimer’s disease (AD) to evaluate the safety and initial efficacy of Transcranial Electromagnetic Treatment (TEMT). Patients were enrolled at the University of South Florida Health/Byrd Alzheimer’s Institute, which also conducted most clinical study assessments. Treatment was administered in the patient’s home by a caregiver (spouse, relative), using the MemorEM device.
Patients received TEMT for one-hour periods twice daily for two months. Although limitations of this study include the small number of subjects, not having a control group, and being of relatively short treatment duration, 120 treatments were administered in-home and the cognitive benefits observed were clinically important/meaningful at the highest levels. Providing additional credibility to the observed cognitive enhancements were the beneficial changes in AD markers in blood and CSF, as well as the enhancement in brain MRI imaging.
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A biotech commentator sent me this link to the study:
https://content.iospress.com/download/journal-of-alzheimers-disease/jad190367?id=journal-of-alzheimers-disease%2Fjad190367
This one confounds me. Some electromagnetic stimulation may be good for the brain, but too much is not (the authors' claim that what they are using is safe and effective).
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jcmm.12088
I don't see this holding up over the long-term, but I could certainly be wrong.
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I've seen studies on TCDS TransCranial direct stimulation. Its being tried for Parkinsons, Tinnitus, I haven't really looked into it, here's a link.
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/results?cond=&term=transcranial&cntry=&state=&city=&dist=
Radiolab has an episode called 9 volt nirvana, I haven't heard it yet, but it sound interesting.
https://thebrainstimulator.net/research/
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the tests also showed that their ADAS-cog score, which assesses their memory, thinking, judgment and other cognitive skills, was raised by 4 points or more in 7/8 patients.
This score is used as the gold standard for judging the efficacy of all AD treatments, and the four-point increase shows a large increase in cognitive performance which translates into clinically important improvement in mental function.
This is all the more satisfying when it is contrasted with the typical 4+ decline in this score over one year in patients with AD.
In other words, it could be interpreted as turning the clock back one whole year on the disease – a significant improvement in cognitive performance.
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A bunch of other News stories about Dr Reheinhart's Experiment to "help synchronize electrical activity across brain areas.
8 Apr 2019 ... Electrical stimulation of the human brain can produce a striking improvement in the short-term memory of the elderly, with people in their 60s ...
8 Apr 2019 ... Low-level electrical stimulation can reverse some of the cognitive ... will set the stage for improving cognition in both healthy adults and ... older adults perform worse, on average, on working-memory tasks than younger adults.
8 Apr 2019 ... Study suggests out-of-sync brain waves help drive cognitive aging. ... generating electrical waves that let you hold information for as long as it is needed. .... transcranial stimulation has been shown to restore working memory ...
Electrostimulation can improve working memory in people: As ...
12 Apr 2019 ... Electrostimulation can improve working memory in people ... by using electrical currents to noninvasively stimulate brain areas that have lost ... However, when the older adults received 25 minutes of mild stimulation delivered ...
8 Apr 2019 ... Working memory of older group temporarily improves to match younger group in ... After electrical stimulation, working memory in older adults ...
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T He
The Head of R & D for Biogen left to join a company called Apple Tree Partners(?). Gala Therapeutics, which is using RheOx uses a minimally invasive procedure to deliver non-thermal energy to the airways to reduce mucus-producing cells in patients with Chronic Bronchitis - If I remember it correctly Gala Therapeutics was created by Apple Tree Partners.
When will people realize that there is more to treatment than drugs, in fact, what if a cell could be influenced- the same way a drug would, but without the drug, with.... I don't know... some kind of .........magic energy that isn't light and isn't heat.
lets see ....if it can heal people by sending that energy into the cells, whether its intra-venously ( inside the vein), shining NIR light at the photoreceptors in the eyes, or into up the nasal passages. Perhaps a really far-reaching version of light could penetrate the skull itself.
Desperate people and research is starting to show that merely 'shining' light or energy at a cell can improve that cells functionality. (and this benefit travels throughout the body to wherever its needed.) Though it will probably still be faster to use light or red light or beyond red light - near the brain, rather than by aiming that energy up an AD sufferer's bottom, as someone once suggested.
I was reading a study on the effect of electromagnetic waves on the brain, researchers expected to see an increase in blood flow to specific areas of the brain. But the increase of blood flow itself was negligible, what they did see was that theta waves increased.
Much has been written about Gamma waves, this researcher suggested that Theta waves are the waves the brain uses to communicate within itself, these waves bring all the communication together in the way that creates meaning or understanding (awareness of the thought in a larger context.
I should probably break this down into a few topics, add and verify my research. For now, please take it with a large grain of salt.
Oh, and even though their R&D guy left for a partly bio-medical tech company, (people do like to move up in their careers, get more responsibility and better titles)
- I still have a strong suspicion that Biogen is onto something. With past critics saying they spend too much time trying to narrow a trial down to only the sub-group of people it can help - I wouldn't be surprised if they have found something that only works for people with a particular gene. Once they can identify who it would help, ta-daaa, you have genetically customized medicine. But this is purely my speculation.
And I will say it again, It should only be a matter or time; until scientist can separate the useful parts of the drug from the harmful parts, or modify the delivery to penetrate the BBB, while sparing the other organs.
Rant Over.
Gala Therapeutics Receives FDA Breakthrough Device Designation for the Minimally Invasive RheOx™ System for Chronic Bronchitis
 MENLO PARK, Calif., Sept. 16, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Gala Therapeutics, Inc. (Gala), a developer of medical devices to treat pulmonary disease, announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted Breakthrough Device Designation (FDA) for the RheOxTM Bronchial RheoplastyTM system. RheOx uses a minimally invasive procedure to deliver non-thermal energy to the airways to reduce mucus-producing cells in patients with Chronic Bronchitis.
Gala Therapeutics' investigational RheOx Bronchial Rheoplasty system
"Today there are no treatments to address the debilitating symptoms impacting the quality of life in patients with Chronic Bronchitis. We are excited by FDA's decision to designate RheOx as a breakthrough device, underscoring the significant unmet need for these patients," said Jonathan Waldstreicher, MD, CEO of Gala Therapeutics. "We look forward to working with FDA to bring a solution that improves the lives of these patients."
The Breakthrough Device Program is intended to streamline the regulatory pathway for first-of-its-kind medical devices that can provide more effective treatment for patients suffering from life-threatening or irreversibly debilitating diseases to ensure that patients have timely access to vital treatments.
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It always amazes me how much information regarding potentially effective treatments for Alzheimer's disease either get ignored or are summarily dismissed. I blame this in part on how various pharmaceutical companies, research scientists, funding organizations, etc. want so desparately to treat this disease with a drug.
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Neuro-Degenerative & Keywords Pulsed Brain -Studies with Results
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- Stimulation of BDNF8
- Migration and differentiation of stem cells4,6
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Real-time tracking of the handpiece position enables automatic
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The energy applied is highlighted in colour. The BodyTrack® software is a unique tool for the visualization and control of the TPS® pulses applied and of treatment progress.
 Real-time visualization of TPS® treatment
Advantages of the BodyTrack® software
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NEUROLITH® – The perfect solution to facilitate Alzheimer’s treatment
NEUROLITH® – an innovative system with convincing design features! The special ergonomic shape of the TPS®
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The NEUROLITH® software includes patient management functionalities with retrievable data and recommended treatment parameters.
 3D camera with patient and handpiece position detection / Calibration probe and tracking glasses with markers / TPS® handpiece with markers
Advantages of the NEUROLITH®
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Publications:
3Yahata,
K. et al.: Low-energy extracorporeal shock wave therapy for promotion
of vascular endothelial growth factor expression and angiogenesis and
improvement of locomotor and sensory functions after spinal cord injury,
J Neurosurg Spine, Vol. 25(6), Pages 745–755, 2016
4Hatanaka,
K. et al.: Molecular mechanisms of the angiogenic effects of low-energy
shock wave therapy: roles of mechanotransduction, Am J Physiol Cell
Physiol, Vol. 311(3), C378–C385, 2016
5Mariotto, S. et al.: Extracorporeal shock waves: From lithotripsy to anti-inflammatory
action by NO production, Nitric Oxide, Vol. 12(2), 89–96, 2005
6d´Agostino,
M. C. et al.: Shock wave as biological therapeutic tool: From
mechanical stimulation to recovery and healing, through
mechanotransduction, Int J Surg., Dec. 24(Pt B), 147-153, 2015
7López-Marín, L. M. et al.: Shock wave–induced permeabilization of mammalian cells, Phys Life Rev., 26-27:1-38, 2018
8Wang,
B. et al.: Low-Intensity Extracorporeal Shock Wave Therapy Enhances
Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor Expression through PERK/ATF4 Signaling
Pathway, Int J Mol Sci., Feb 16;18(2). pii: E433, 2017
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The worse the memory of the older people in Reinhart’s study, the more that alternating-current stimulation improved it. But even in younger adults with good memory, “we are seeing boosts in brain and behavior measures,” he said about unpublished results. “I think it is possible to turbocharge” their memory, too.
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TEMT has been around for a few years for drug resistant depression with fair results. When research first started showing positive results with Alzheimer's patients insurers became concerned people with AD would start using it for their "depression" when in reality it was being used to treat their dementia. My current insurer and my previous insurer both approve TEMT for treatment of depression UNLESS there is a concurrent Alzheimer's diagnosis. Then TEMT is denied categorically. You see, we can't be spending money on a safe, effective, drug free, non-invasive treatment that may be able to treat two disabling health problems at once. No-No-No- we need to make sure the cost is pushed off on the formulary (medication) portion of the insurance. They can then control costs by refusing to cover all those expensive drugs.
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Oh for crying out loud!
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My DW’s neuro uses magnetic brain stimulation in a clinical setting, for two objectives: improved short term memory, and preserving/delaying progression of verbal fluency.
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Really, would you send me that Dr.s Name, location of practice?
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I just read that some flowers are buzz - pollinated. Its actually the hum produced by the bees (wings?) that triggers a reaction to release pollen from the plant.
Scientists have replicated pollen release with a tuning fork.
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