For the past few years, Annabelle Singer and her collaborators have been using flickering lights and sound to treat mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease, and they’ve seen some dramatic results.
Now they have results from the first human feasibility study of the flicker treatment, and they’re promising.
“We looked at safety, tolerance, and adherence, and several different biological outcomes, and the results were excellent—better than we expected,” said Singer, assistant professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory.
Singer shared preliminary results of…