An Infrared Hat: Hope for Alzheimer Patients?
Written by admin on February 2nd, 2008 in devices and gadgets.
Dementia due to Alzheimer’s Disease is a terrible thing to witness on a loved one. Scientists from the University of Sunderland in the U.K. claim they have the answer to the problem.
The answer comes in form of a hat which is to be worn for ten minutes everyday. Creators claim that the hat bathes the brain in infrared light which, in turn, stimulates growth of brain cells. This new technology, if successful, could not only slow down rate of dementia but even, to a certain extent, reverse it. Critics express their doubts at the hat’s efficacy and underlying mechanism. According to the Health Blog in WSJ, however, there is a possibility that that this might just be true, although studies on infrared have only focused on strokes before.
The scientists who came up with the device have already performed lab experiments although it would take more time for this new technology to be confirmed as true and viable. We could only wait and see.
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