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Flashing lights offer hope for Alzheimers cure

Flashing lights offer hope for Alzheimers cure

FromFT News in Focus


Flashing lights offer hope for Alzheimers cure

FromFT News in Focus

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Length:
5 minutes
Released:
Dec 7, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Flashing lights offer hope for a radical new non-drug treatment for Alzheimer’s disease, according to research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It found that flickering at a frequency of 40 times per second induced brain waves that helped clear toxic proteins in a study on mice. John Murray-Brown talks to Clive Cookson, the FT's science editor, about the breakthrough. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Released:
Dec 7, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

News features and analysis from Financial Times reporters around the world. FT News in Focus is produced by Fiona Symon.