Researchers suggest this treatment could help Alzheimer’s patients but critics are unsure
The researchers tracked the participants’ performance over the four days, as well as one month after the experiment. “We watched the memory improvements accumulate over time with each passing day, so that the memory enhancement in short-term memory and long-term memory were observable at the one-month timepoint,” Reinhart said.
“Older people with poor general cognitive functioning at baseline – coming into the experiment – showed the largest improvements during the intervention and the one-month timepoint,” said Reinhart. This meant that electrical brain stimulation could help patients with more severe memory impairment, such as those with Alzheimer’s disease, he said.
Dr Susan Kohlhaas, the director of research at Alzheimer’s Research UK, who was not involved in the study, said: “This is a small early-stage study that showed some memory benefits for older people who received a type of noninvasive brain stimulation involving specialised equipment and very specific procedures.
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