Light-based implants for treating Alzheimer's disease
Publication Date:
05/11/2006
Document Type and Number:
United States Patent 20060100679
Kind Code:
A1
Abstract:
An intracranial, light-emitting implant for providing therapy to a patient having Alzheimer's Disease.

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Light-emitting diode treatment reverses the effect of TTX on cytochrome oxidase in neurons.

Neurochemistry
Neuroreport. 12(14):3033-3037, October 8, 2001.
Wong-Riley, Margaret T. T. CA; Bai, Xuetao; Buchmann, Ellen 1; Whelan, Harry T. 1

Abstract:
Light close to and in the near-infrared range has documented benefits for promoting wound healing in human and animals. However, mechanisms of its action on cells are poorly understood. We hypothesized that light treatment with a light-emitting diode array at 670 nm (LED) is therapeutic in stimulating cellular events involving increases in cytochrome oxidase activity. LED was administered to cultured primary neurons whose voltage-dependent sodium channels were blocked by tetrodotoxin. The down-regulation of cytochrome oxidase activity by TTX was reverted to control levels by LED. LED alone also up-regulated enzyme activity. Thus, the results are consistent with our hypothesis that LED has a stimulating effect on cytochrome oxidase in neurons, even when they have been functionally silenced by TTX.

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Light treatment via implantable probes:

http://www.google.com/patents?hl=en&...ight+treatment
Helmet seems much better!

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Infrared Mineral Lamp: (a book)
FDA approved in 1988.

http://shop.toolsforhealing.com/FIM_...dp-upc-g01.htm

http://www.electronichealing.co.uk/a...mp_reviews.htm

http://www.healinglamp.com/howitworks.htm

I wonder if it works for the brain.

Read book here:

http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&...OhreZZZDzmky68