From the ArcaMax Publishing, Science & Technology Newsletter:
http://www.arcamax.com/news/technology/s-378070-734250
EASINGTON, England (UPI) -- A British dementia patient's progress
using an infrared device in an experimental helmet could be "hugely
significant," the device's developer says.
Dr. Gordon Dougal, a general practitioner from Easington, England,
treated dementia patient Clem Fennell with his infrared device when
Fennell's family sought help two months ago, The Daily Mail reported
Monday.
He showed remarkable improvement in three weeks, Fennell's wife,
Vickey, said.
"My husband, Clem, was fading away. It is as if he is back," she told
the British newspaper. "His personality has started to show again. We
are absolutely thrilled."
The helmet hasn't been proven in clinical trials but the family said
the effects of the twice-a-day, 10-minute sessions were incredible,
family members said. Fennell now can converse and go shopping
unaccompanied, tasks that eluded him before the treatment, the
newspaper said.
Dougal said he believes the device, which bathes the brain in infrared
light, could help thousands of dementia patients.
Dougal, a director of the medical research company Virulite, developed
the helmet with Sunderland University. The helmet has
skull-penetrating 700 LED lights, thought to be the right wavelength
that stimulate brain cell growth, slow memory decline and reverse
dementia symptoms, The Daily Mail said.